Have you ever been on a website which’s section you wanted to quickly share, but couldn’t because there were no deep links?

Apparently, the creators of Asual have, and they simply hated it.

Asual is a powerful jQuery plugin that allows deep linking even when JavaScript is turned off.

The plugin helps to ease crawling of AJAX-powered pages and allows easier bookmarking as well as safe use of browser navigation.

Asual supports all major browsers, including IE6–so you can use it for bigger projects where browser compatibility is a concern.

• Website: http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/
• Demo: http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/samples/

99points has a nice tutorial on how to make a functional drop-down menu using their plugin

Overall, this drop down menu is a nice and small “plugin”, which does one thing, and does it good.

The only downside to this snippet that there are no fallbacks for browsers with javascript disabled.

If you don’t want to read through the tutorial, you can just as well download & edit the example.

• Website: http://www.99points.info/2010/09/fancy-menus-using-jquery-and-css/
• Demo: http://demos.99points.info/fancy_menus/

jQuery.dynamicTimezones is a jQuery plugin that tries to read the client’s timezone.

The plugin displays the timezone by replacing the contents of an HTML tag.

The plugin can be configured to work with dates of different format.

This plugin is a nice alternative to using PHP’s date(), and could as well be useful when generating date-related information on the fly.

• Website: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/dtz
• Demo: http://jrhizor.github.com/jquery.dynamicTimezones/demo.html

Labelify is a jQuery plugin which allows adding labels to textareas to ease user navigation. The text is included inside the textbox and removes itself whenever the user clicks it.

The looks can be customized with CSS.

The plugin is really, really easy to use.
Once you’ve included the plugin, you only have to add the ‘title’ attribute whenever you define a textbox.

<input title="Your text" name="whatever" type="text" />

• Website: http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/labelify/

jQuery Accordion is a plugin which allows making accordion menus.
The plugin supports nested accordions, up to a single level, and also allows the use of ‘panels’ – menu items where you can store anything.

The tidy design of its plugin, together with the vast functionality it offers - pre-expanded menus, an ‘active’ property that allows for callbacks on item clicks – makes Accordion an attractive plugin with properties for all-round use.

• Website: http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/jquery-accordion-3/

Flip! is a jQuery plugin that adds dimensions to your elements, by allowing them to be flipped into four directions. You can use „flipboxes” to create interactive content, e.g. show the features of a product from all sides, or simply add a fun touch to the design.

Flip doesn’t fall short on the functionality:  you can change the flipboxes’ color; animation speed; and even call functions before, during, and after the animation.

• Website: http://lab.smashup.it/flip/