JQuery Tools – is a JQuery library that offers a pretty impressive set of useful tools.

Here is a list of the tools and a brief description of what they do.

Tabs

A light weight library that allows you to create a tabbed menu with little to no trouble.

• Light Weight (2.5kb)
  In comparison to the JQuery UI library (130kb), this is a drastic size difference / loading time.
• Accordions
  The tab library allows for the tabs to be used as accordions (both horizontal and vertical).
• Browser History
  The tabs don’t break the browser history. You can switch tabs, then press the back button on the browser and you will return to the previous tab.
• Cross Linking
  You can link into a tab. Nice feature to have.
• Animations
  You can animate and customize the tabs as you please.

Tooltip

Create a simple tool tip for your projects quick and easily. Great for forms, and other help items.

• Simple
  They have made it super simple to add a tool tip to your web pages. Very handy for forms.
• Can Style with CSS
  You can style the tool tips as you please.

Scrollable

Create a gallery of scrolling items. These are great for news tickers or catalogs.

• Horizontal or Vertical
  You can have it as either a vertical or horizontal scrolling gallery.
• Dynamic addition and removal of items
  You can add and remove items on the fly. Allows you to create a very dynamic scrollable gallery.
• Automatic Scrolling
  Allow your gallery to scroll periodically. You have a few attributes that you can tweak to get it the way you like.

Overlay

Create and customize a modal pop-up window. Great alternative to browser pop-ups.

• Style with CSS
  You can customize the overlay the you like.
• Load External Pages
  Load in external pages into your modal window.

Expose

Puts emphasis on the selected item by darkening the background.

• Background Graphics
  You can change the background graphics to your liking.
• Style with CSS
  Customize your colors and opacity with CSS.

Flashembed

A simple way to embed Flash while using JQuery‘s selectors.

• Easy
  It is nice and easy to quickly embed Flash into your web pages. Comparable to SWFObject.
• light weight(5kb)
  Nice and small to help with loading times.

Overall it is a nice collection. I’m really loving the size of the library. Functionality without the loading times. That has been my one complaint about the JQuery UI.

To see which browsers it is compatible with visit their browser support page, and here is the download page.