jQuery++ Plugins to Cover Gaps in the jQuery

David Luecke offers a MIT licensed collection of extremely useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery 1.7 and later. This is not a UI project like jQuery UI or jQuery Tools. Instead, it is all about providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn’t support. If Underscore is jQuery’s functional-programming tie, this is jQuery’s bald-spot covering toupee.

• Animate - jQuery.animate overwrites $.fn.animate to use CSS 3 animations if possible. It takes the same arguments as the original $.fn.animate and will fall back to jQuery’s JavaScript animation if a CSS animation is not possible.

• Compare - jQuery.compare adds $.fn.compare to compare the position of two nodes. It returns a number that represents a bitmask showing how they are positioned relative to each other. The following list shows the bitmask, the number and what it means for a $.fn.compare call like $('#foo').compare($('#bar')):

• Dimensions - jQuery.dimensions overwrites $.fn.innerWidth, $.fn.outerWidth, $.fn.innerHeight, $.fn.outerHeight and enables $.fn.animate to animate these values. Inner dimensions include the padding where outer dimensions also take care of borders and margins (if includeMargin is set to true).