If you wanted to change the layout of JQuery plugins according to your design, then you have to learn from where to search JQuery Plugins first
Enter in JQuery world / Search for the most suitable plugins
Open the JQuery official website from http://jquery.com/ then click on plugins section from where you can search the appropriate plugin. The direct link for JQuery plugins is http://plugins.jquery.com/. Here you can find thousands of attractive plugins.
Explore and Preview the plugins in action
- For instance we are searching for menu plugin. Enter in menu category or search menu from search box. You will find the list of JQuery menus.
- Open differnet menus in new windows, Click on "Try out demonstration".
- Here you will find the "Demonstration page", You can check the plugins output
- Follow the "Download Example" page to download the source code (in zip format normally)
- Folder structure of the source code varies. But the common used folder structure of JQuery plugins is as follows
- "index.html" / "demo.html" file
- "css" folder includes the css of that particular plugin
- "images" folder includes all the images used by the plugin and referent from HTML and/or CSS files
- "include" / "js" folder this folder contains all javascripts used by that particular plugin, NOTE: Move Jquery.js (main file 1.1 - 1.3.2) if you are using multiple JQuery plugins from every plugins folder to some other location and refer all plugins to that file.
- Now copy the plugin folder to your root folder
- Considerable changes are < head > section for metadata reference locations
- < script > section (embeded) if any
- and < div > section (finally)