Awesome jQuery
A curated list of awesome jQuery plugins, resources and other shiny things. Inspired by the awesome-* trend on GitHub.
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
Animation
Animations, transitions.
- Animsition - A simple and easy jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions.
- fakeLoader.js - Lightweight plugin that helps you create an animated spinner with a fullscreen loading mask to simulate the page preloading effect.
- Fullpage.js - Create full screen pages fast and simple.
- jQuery Transit - Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery.
- Material Design Preloader!s - Recreation of the Material Design preloader.
- Midnight - Switches fixed headers on the fly.
- Parallax.js - Scrolling effect.
- Scrollify - Assists scrolling and snaps to sections. Touch optimised.
- Waves - Click effect inspired by Google's Material Design.
- jQuery DrawSVG - Lightweight, simple to use jQuery plugin to animate SVG paths
- jQuery Particles - A plugin to easily add Particles animations to your web application
Editors
WYSIWYG editors.
- Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor - jQuery WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor based on HTML5.
- Hallo - Simple rich text editor (contentEditable) for jQuery UI.
- jQuery Notebook - A modern, simple and elegant WYSIWYG rich text editor.
- jQuery TE - Lightweight HTML editor.
- TinyMCE - Popular WYSIWYG editor with jQuery build and a jQuery integration plugin.
Plugins for Forms, AJAX, validation.
- Bootstrap Multiselect - Multiselect for Bootstrap.
- File Upload - File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video.
- Ideal Forms - Framework for building and validating responsive HTML5 forms.
- jQuery Form Plugin - Easy and unobtrusive HTML forms upgrade to use AJAX.
- jquery-minicolors - A tiny color picker plugin.
- Justified Gallery - Allows you to create a gallery with a justified grid.
- Labelauty - A lightweight and beautiful plugin for radio and checkbox inputs.
- Payform - A library (with jQuery plugin) for building credit card forms, validating inputs, and formatting numbers.
- Pickadate - The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight date & time input picker.
- Select2 - Select box with support for searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling.
- selectize.js - jQuery based hybrid of a textbox and <select> box.
Images, Maps and Charts
Plugins related to images, image manipulation, galleries, maps and charts.
- AnyChart-jQuery - Plugin for easily using AnyChart JavaScript charting library with jQuery.
- Arbor - Graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery.
- BackStretch - jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element.
- Chart.js - Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag.
- Cropper - A simple image cropping plugin.
- Dense.js - Serving retina-ready, high pixel ratio images with ease.
- Flot - Attractive charts.
- Gridder - Displays a thumbnail grid expanding preview similar to the effect seen on Google Images.
- jquery.sparkline - Generate small sparkline charts.
- jQuery.eraser - Erasing image with mouse or touch movements.
- jQuery Mapael - Plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.
- jQueryGantt - Gantt editor.
- jQuery Images Compare - Plugin for comparing two images.
- Nivo Slider - Beautiful and easy to use image slider.
- Owl Carousel 2 - Responsive carousel slider.
- Slick - The last carousel you'll ever need.
- Peity - Progressive <svg> pie, donut, bar and line charts.
- Unite Gallery - Responsive jQuery image and video gallery plugin.
- Viewer - A simple jQuery image viewing plugin.
- JQuery-linechart - Simple and lightweight library for creating line charts
Menus animation, usability enhancements and beautification.
- jQuery contextMenu - Management facility for context menus.
- jPanelMenu - Creates a paneled-style menu (like the type seen in the mobile versions of Facebook, Google and native iPhone applications).
- jQuery-menu-aim - Fires events when user's cursor aims at particular dropdown menu items.
- mmenu - App look-alike on- and off-canvas menus with sliding submenus.
- Multi-level push menu - Allows endless nesting of navigation elements.
- Slidebars - jQuery framework for off-canvas menus and sidebars.
- stickUp - Sticks an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view.
- Superfish - Adds usability enhancements to existing multi-level drop-down menus.
- Yamm - Yet another megamenu for Bootstrap 3.
Modals and Popups
Plugins for modals (dialog box/popups), tooltips, and similar popup windows.
- animatedModal.js - Plugin for creating fullscreen modals with CSS3 transitions. You can use the transitions from
animate.css or create your own.
- Avgrund - Plugin for your modal boxes and popups with new concept of showing depth between popup and page.
- Bootstrap Modal - Extends the default Bootstrap Modal class. Responsive, stackable and ajax.
- iziModal - Elegant, responsive, flexible and lightweight modal plugin with jQuery.
- jBox - Powerful and flexible plugin which takes care of all modal windows, tooltips and notices.
- jQuery Modal - Simple and lightweight method of displaying modal windows.
- jQuery Popup Overlay - Responsive and accessible modal windows and tooltips.
- Lightbox - JavaScript library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
- Magnific Popup - Fast, light and responsive lightbox plugin.
- SweetAlert - A beautiful replacement for JavaScript's alert.
- tipso - A Lightweight Responsive jQuery Tooltip Plugin.
- vex - A modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style.
Tables
Grid plugins and plugins for creating and showcasing data in form of tables.
- Bootgrid - A grid control especially designed for bootstrap.
- Bootstrap table - A powerful table control designed for bootstrap.
- DataTables - Advanced interaction controls for HTML tables.
- FancyGrid - JavaScript grid library with charts integration and server communication.
- Filter Table - Live searching/filtering for HTML tables.
- FloatThead - Sticky headers. Supports responsive, window and overflow scrolling.
- FooTable - Make HTML tables responsive.
- Isotope - Filter & sort magical layouts.
- HighchartTable - Simple way to convert HTML data tables to Highcharts graphs.
- jqGrid - Grid plugin.
- jQuery treetable - Show a tree structure in a table.
- jsGrid - Lightweight grid plugin.
- Stackable.js - Stacking tables on small screens.
- Stupid Table Sort - A stupidly small and simple jQuery table sorter plugin.
- tableExport.jquery.plugin - Export HTML table to JSON, XML, CSV, TXT, SQL, Word, Excel, PNG or PDF.
- jquery.table-shrinker - make HTML Table responsive across all devices, the right way!
Time and Date
Plugins for handling, manipulating or formating time and date.
- jQuery Timer Plugin - Start/Stop/Resume/Remove pretty timer inside any HTML element.
- Timeago - Easy support of automatic updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago").
Translations
Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).
- i18n properties - Lightweight plugin for providing internationalization to JavaScript from .properties files
- jquery.i18n - jQuery based Javascript internationalization library for easy internationalization of web application
- jquery.localize.js - Easy internationalization of your static web site
Validation
Validation plugins.
- FormValidation - Form fields validator, designed for Bootstrap, Foundation, Pure, Semantic UI, UIKit and other frameworks.
- h5Validate - An HTML5 form validation plugin for jQuery.
- jQuery Form Validator - Validate user input while keeping your HTML markup clean from JavaScript code.
- jquery-validation - Drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making all kinds of customizations to fit your application really easy.
- jQuery.validationEngine - Validation of form fields in the browser.
- jQuery-form-validation - Validatie html forms using Laravel syntax.
Miscellaneous Plugins
Plugins that couldn't be sorted in above categories yet.
- Boilerplate - A jump-start for jQuery plugins development.
- Interlink - Event interlink plugin.
- Sisyphus - Gmail-like client-side drafts and bit more.
- Slugify - Creates a URL slug as you type a page title (like Django slugify()).
- Readmore.js - A lightweight jQuery plugin for collapsing and expanding long blocks of text with "Read more" and "Close" links.
- Yahoo! Emoticons - Yahoo! Emoticons JQuery Plugin.
- autoNumberic - autoNumeric is a standalone library that provides live as-you-type formatting for international numbers and currencies.