Optical Flare: Animate an optical flare across web elements without the use of images.

This is a plugin for jQuery which animates a colored optical flare to slide across elements.

The flare is white in the center and has a customizable colored glow. The plugin also allows change of speed, glow radius, and event triggering the animation. The animation is performed by sliding across an element’s top-left corner to the top-right corner.

Features:

  • Cool movie-style effect also used in games such as Sleeping Dogs.
  • Works in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and IE 10 including mobile.
  • Uses modern CSS techniques.
  • Customizable glow color, speed, glow radius, and trigger event.
  • First Optical flare effect without use of images.

Download: https://github.com/rutkat/flare

Demonstration: https://runastartup.com/flare-jquery-plugin/

Plugin homepage: https://runastartup.com/flare-jquery-plugin/

Implementation:

Options:

targetStringDefault : div#id – Optional parameter for the target location of the flare

Screenshots:

Creating a JavaScript Library

I recently wrote a JavaScript library for creating random colors and color schemes, and while I foun…

s3Slider jQuery Plugin & Tutorial

The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd`s smooth slide show script. Usage: HTML: Sample …

jQuery Optimization: Avoid Unnecessary Selector

Common subexpression elimination is a common way to optimize any programming code. Doing unnecessary…

Fading Links Using jQuery: dwFadingLinks

Earlier this month, we posted a MooTools script that faded links to and from a color during the mous…

jQuery Flash Plugin

This jQuery plugin is for embedding Flash movies. Pages are progressively enhanced when Flash and Ja…

jQuery Optimization: Optimize Selector

We can also optimize our selector other than being a bit specific on our selector. The key to optimi…

jQuery drop down menu: droppy

Quick and dirty nested drop-down menu in the jQuery style. I needed a nav like this for a recent pro…