6 Best Free jQuery Framework/Library

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.




1- KeyTable


A lighweight JS library for adding keyboard navigation support to tables.The library provides an Excel-like navigation that can be bundled with features like on-click editing. The inline row editing feature is accomplished with the jQuery jEditable plug-in. And, KeyTable integrates easily with DataTables (see WRD post).The library works in all major browsers.




2- DataTables


A jQuery plugin for adding advanced interaction controls to HTML tables.It can add pagination, filtering and multi-column sorting functions to tables with ease.




3- Datagrid: Ingrid


Ingrid is an unobtrusive jQuery component for creating very nice looking & effective datagrids.It simply adds datagrid behaviors (column resizing, paging, sorting, row and column styling, and more) to your tables.




With every display event, Ingrid sends a query to a dynamic file (ASP, Asp.Net, PHP..), which must be created by you (a PHP example exists).The query then simply returns the results in a table format "how Ingrid expects them to be". And, that's all.




4- jqGrid


jqGrid is an Ajaxed jQuery grid plugin with amazing features.As the grid is a client-side solution that loads data with Ajax callbacks, it can be used with any server-side language like ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP and so.A clever feature is sub grids which shows you a sub grid when a master column is called.




5- tablesorter


tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes.tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.Using tableSorter, you can have custom headers, sorting classes and row striping features.




6- Flexigrid


Flexigrid is a feature rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using AJAX to load the content.