While frameworks such as JQuery are popular, it's still wise to work to understand the underlying language they are built on.
HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and DOM form the foundation which front-end web frameworks leverage to work their magic.
This example uses all of these to build a simple scrolling menu with a limiting view port to show a subset of the overall records
at any one time. In addition to the JavaScript example, here are some examples of swapping the CSS3 rules to apply various shadow
and color styling on-the-fly.