35 Awesome jQuery Navigation Enhancing Plugin Tutorials
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by bmackler in Resources
One of the single most important elements on a website is the navigation. For a website to work properly the navigation needs to be laid out well, intuitive and most of all useful. In the past when you wanted to do anything interesting with your navigation it took complex programming languages or Flash to achieve, today that is different. jQuery is an excellent choice for creating dynamic, exciting navigation without all the hours of programming. Check out these 35 awesome jQuery plugins for creating the perfect website navigation. Check out the demos and download the already-built scripts and add them quickly and easily to your site.
Interested in more jQuery tutorials, take a look at jQuery image plugin tutorials
Puffer Fish Navigation
Rollover navigation with a glow
Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS
How to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.
jQuery Simple Drop-Down Menu
Extremely simple drop-down menu. The peculiarity of this menu is that these 20 lines of code and absence of various cumbersome mouse events within html code.
Fancy Navigation with jQuery
Rollover navigation with a glow. Has simple and elegant roll over effects
iPod-style Drilldown and Flyout Menu
The iPod-style menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels.
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation
Gives a beautiful effect and using this technique can spare you some space on your website.
jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
Build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect.
Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw
Fancy and Stylized Dropdown Horizontal Navigation
Superfish v1.4.8
Enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu
Color Fading Menu with jQuery
CSS and jQuery powered rollover that alters the color of the button
Simple and Beautiful jQuery Accordion Tutorial
Well-known javascript accordion with the most minimal amount of html, css, javascript code and of course, with a beautiful interface
Slide and Hide Section Navigation
Create a slide and hide menu, where the menu items slide in and then hide themselves elegantly to give way for the selected menu item.
Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery
Build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery.
jQuery UI Tabs
Simple jQuery powered tabbed navigation

jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial Build your own tabbed Interface using jQuery with slideDown/slideUp effect. Tutorial Example jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
Kwicks Menu with jQuery
An apple style menu and improve it via jQuery
Vertical Sliding Menu
Create a sliding menu button using jquery
Mega Dropdown Navigation
Dropdown navigation with multiple links and lists
Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight
This sliding hover effect script is an easy method to add some flavor to your navigation.
Create Vimeo-like top navigation
Create a curved drop down vertical navigation with curved edges.
jQuery for Background Image Animations
Pull off various Background Effects in Your Navigation With This Tutorial
Scrolling jQuery Menu
Vertical Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery
Navigation Effect Using jQuery
Simple sliding animation when you hover over each button
Query (mb)Menu 2.7
Powerful jQuery component to build easily a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu (right click) in an intuitive way
Image Menu With Jquery
Image Driven Expanding Horizontal Navigation
Animated Horizontal Menu
Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery that scrolls automatically according to your mouse axis-Y movement.
jQuery plugin: Treeview
Lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, great for unobtrusive navigation enhancements.
Simple Accordian
There are a lot of scripts we have seen and sure you too would have seen them. This script is one of the smallest accordion script which is extremely simple and easy to integrate.
Scrolling jQuery Menu
Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery
Menu Fader
Fading Menu – Replacing Content
A circular menu with sub menus
A follow on from the simple single level circular menu, this one adds a sub menu level of smaller icons in a circular pattern within the top level circle.
Animated Drop Down Menu
Smooth Animated Menu using jQuery
JQuery/CSS Dock Menu
This mac style navigation menu provides the user a clean, organized and animated interface for surfing a site’s content.
Super slick jQuery menu with CSS3
Animated graphic menu that fades the inactive navigation.
Sliding-Sliding Doors – Animated jQuery Menu
Animated menu with sliding rollover
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resume
28. Dec, 2009
Thank you for the information, it will surely help me a lot. Cheers!!!
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Alex Flueras
29. Dec, 2009
This is an excellent list. Thanks for sharing!
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chinwue
29. Dec, 2009
Excellent !
I will bring some to my semester project.
Thanks!
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bmackler Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@chinwue, Best of luck. what is your semester project?
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Jeff Corey
29. Dec, 2009
nice work….thanks
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Bill
29. Dec, 2009
Very nice!
Great resource for inspiration and know-how.
Thanks alot!
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bmackler Reply:
December 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
@Bill, Yes, there are tons out there, these were just the best that I uncovered. Glad you found them of good use
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30. Dec, 2009
“jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial” is cool! Good collection
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Mary Lou
07. Jan, 2010
Hello there! Thanks for mentioning our “Beautiful Slide Out Navigation”! The link to the example is http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/FixedNavigationTutorial/
Great Post BTW!
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bmackler Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
@Mary Lou, My pleasure. its such a great example of wonderful jQuery I couldn’t not show it! Thank you.
Glad you like the post. I look forward to further feedback in the future.
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MarkSpizer
03. May, 2010
great post as usual!
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Web Design Northampton
11. May, 2010
Great post, some of these look really neat. Can’t wait to try them out in designs.
Thanks.
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12. Jul, 2010
These look fantastic are these navigational structures easily crawled by Google? This is one of the issues I have had with some drop down style menus.
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Valador
21. Jul, 2010
This is an excellent list. Thanks for sharing!
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Graphic Design Junction
24. Jul, 2010
Amazing jQuery collection. i like ur presentation style.. thanks
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Beta
28. Jul, 2010
Thanks for mentioning our “Beautiful Slide Out Navigation”!This is very excellent.Thanks to sharing.
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Jerry garcia tie
23. Aug, 2010
nice work….thanks
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Simple
26. Aug, 2010
Amazing jQuerys collection.
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vlinh
05. Sep, 2010
that’s really awesome menu jquery..thank a lots. i like it
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Domitila Dreiss
29. Dec, 2010
I am always invstigating online for tips that can facilitate me. Thx!
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zahnarzt
12. Jan, 2011
i hate javascript navigation… they are deadly for SEO.. and now, the SEO is what counts, not the fancy effects
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bmackler Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 8:10 am
yes, the enternal struggle between design, development and SEO. While SEO has great importance, so does the design and overall appeal. because if once you get them to your site, you need to keep them there. for some people a cool an innovative navigation can do just that.
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yachtcharter Reply:
January 14th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
@bmackler, you are right.. the design and overall appeal are important too, but SEO still remains the best traffic source, targeted traffic. I think you can very easily create a very well optimized site and with a clean and nice design
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bmackler Reply:
January 17th, 2011 at 10:53 am
@yachtcharter,
I think the problem is that alot of SEO “pros” are willing to sacrifice good design infavor of “following all the rules” when they do not need to. especially when the rules constantly change.
good SEO should work in unision with good design, neither should have to suffer.
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22. Feb, 2011
I like these plugins allot, I create websites almost weekly so this is a nice little post you got here. Just looking at some of these I noticed I have used a couple. My personal favourites would be either Puffer Fish Navigation or JQuery/CSS Dock Menu, both very stylish and simple.
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23. Mar, 2011
Very nice description and plugins, exteremly useful for website designers… thanks a lot for your tutorials
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12. Apr, 2011
very nice and helpful tutorial. as a matter of fact I do use some of these plugins and really recommend these
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Yachtcharter Holland
16. Apr, 2011
all these plugins are nice… but I don’t like overloading my site with javascript.. I mean, those fancy effects are nice, but they slow down your site loading speed and this is a factor that google takes into consideration when it’s ranking sites
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vilkij
14. Aug, 2011
very good Jquery
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Manoz
08. Nov, 2011
Thankx for sharing………. but i want some thing new and unique like sliding out on mouse hover from left corner.. to 100%.
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