25+ jQuery Animation Tutorials

Flash days have gone. Now we are living in scripting era. jQuery, no doubt, is a powerful, smart and effective choice. Designing Mall collects a wide range of tutorials to show you how jQuery can be supportive to create variety of animated effects.


Some are intermediate level tutorials and some are advanced. This collection is a massive feed for jQuery learners of all ages.

Make an Animated Alphabet Using Keypress Events in jQuery

Crafting an Animated Postcard With jQuery

Sam Dunn of Build Internet, wrote a tutorial on how to create an
animated landscape using transparent images. The tutorial is based on
the jQuery Easing plugin to aid the animation and the setTimeout()
JavaScript function to time the events respectively.

Make Your Header Responses To Mouse Movements with jParallax

jParallax turns a selected element into a window, or viewport, and
all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen
through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and,
depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation),
they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.

Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

The robot is comprised similarly to the background animation scene by
layering several DIVs together to create the different robot pieces.
The final step, was animating the robot with some jQuery.

Animate a Hover With jQuery

Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information
while doing that. Sounds simple huh? Well it is, but the effect is nice
and can be nice for a portfolio, for example.

Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

Create a Realistic Hover Effect with jQuery

Fun with jQuery Animate () Function

Moving Boxes Carousel with jQuery

This is a simple jQuery tutorial will not throw a lot of source code
your way. The carousel has features that allow you to zoom in and out.
The boxes slide left or right.

jQuery UI Animation Effects

Multiple Animations with Glimmer

Glimmer is a JavaScript animation creation tool that lets you create
amazing animations. By visiting the site you’ll be able to see a variety
of examples with code.

jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

This tutorial will allow you to enhance the functionality of content
on your site using  jQuery and a bit of ajax so that the content
loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate
to another page.

jQuery and CSS Sprite Animation Explained in Under 5 Minutes

Create a Parallax Scrolling Background

In this tutorial, you will be  be using jQuery to take a
horizontally scrolling website and add a parallax scrolling background
effect reminiscent of old-school 2D platform games like Sonic the
Hedgehog.

Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery

Learning jQuery: Revealing Photo Slider

Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

This tutorial includes detailed explanation that will guide you
through the process of learning how to make a stunning four corners
sliding effect easily with jQuery.

The youlove.us Scrolling Background Effect Explained

The technique is actually a lot simpler than it looks, it’s based
around scrolling a very tall gradient image behind some transparent PNG
images. The header image (with our logo, strapline and the laptop) has a
transparent background and solid text, while the main page is actually
an image with the heading text as transparent cut outs.

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Animated Menus Using jQuery

Glimmer "Freestyle" Animations

Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery

How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery