20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources

July 21, 2008 - 40 Comments
Ajax, Javascript

1. jSocialize – jQuery version of mooSocialize!

Description: This is the jQuery version of the phenomenal mooSocialize (which was, obviously, built on the mooTools framework).
jSocialize allows you to integrate your bookmarks for every post on your blog, website etc.
By clicking the jSocialize button, a window will appear, which lets you choose your favorite Social Bookmarking Network. Having a thumbnail of each service beside the link, it’s easy to see and find the one of your liking.
It then opens up the page in a hovered layer. Click the X and the window closes.
Try the Demo you will love this.
Demo and Download: jSocialize Demo and Download Page.
Compatability: It’s been tested in Firefox, IE7 and Opera 9+.
Note: This is also available as a WP plugin.

2. jQuery Virtual Tour

Description:jQuery Virtual Tour allows you to add interactivity and transform a panoramic image into a virtual tour.
This is a pretty cool plugin that will give your readers a lot more detail within your image galleries. Recommended.
Demo: jQuery Virtual Tour Demo.
Download: jQuery Virtual Tour Download.

3. jQuery Shoutbox

Description:This shoutbox is a chat-like feature for your website that allows people to quickly leave messages without any form of user registration. As with most ajax there is no need for refresh making the effect very smooth. Unlike other shoutboxes this integrates seemlessly into your theme by styling the CSS file.
Screehshot: jQuery Shoutbox Screenshot.
Download: jQuery Shoutbox Download.
Developer: Ajaxdaddy.

4. Coda Bubble Tooltip

Description: This script will help you recreate the amazing puff popup bubble effect as seen on panic.com/coda. Inessence this is probably the best tooltip script I have seen. Its not a script for every site, but implemented properly it would look amazing.
Demo: Coda Bubble Demo.
Download: Coda Bubble Download.

5. Flexigrid – Data Grid/Table

Description: This is a lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
Features: Resizable columns ; Resizable height and width ; Sortable column headers ; Cool theme ; Can convert an ordinary table ; Ability to connect to an ajax data source (XML and JSON[new]) ; Paging ; Show/hide columns ; Toolbar (new) ; Search (new) ; Accessible API.
Demo: Flexigrid Demo.
Download: Flexigrid Download.

6. Humanized Messages

Description: Humane Messages is a system for displaying and temporarily logging non-modal messages, for use in web applications. It’s simply a large and translucent message that’s displayed over the contents of your screen. They fade away when the user takes any action. In practice, the message is both noticeable yet unobtrusive.
Demo: Humanized Messages Demo.
Download: Humanized Messages Download.

7. Img Notes

Description: A simple way to display notes over images when you roll your mouse over the image. This is not unlike the jQuery Virtual Tour, but a lot simpler to use.
Demo: Img Notes Demo.
Download: Img Notes Download.

8. Featured Content Glider

Description:This script lets you painlessly showcase new or featured contents on your page, by turning ordinary pieces of HTML content into an interactive, “glide in” slideshow. For the ultimate in the ability to customize its look, the pagination links are also ordinary links that you define on the page, but with special CSS class names inserted when it should perform a certain task. Visit the homepage to read about all the features. Excellent.
Demo: Featured Content Glider Demo.
Download: Featured Content Glider Download.

9. Anti-aliased Rounded corners with JQuery

Description:This is a variation of the very good jQuery plugin CurvyCorners, smaller file (in at 15kb) and runs a lot faster.
Demo: Anti-aliased Rounded corners Demo.
Download: Anti-aliased Rounded corners Download.

10. jqDnR – Minimalistic Drag’n'Resize

Description:jqDnR is a lightweight plugin for jQuery that lets you drag, drop, and resize elements. jqDnR provides the all the basic elastic functionality most dialogs will need. Basic and simple and easy to use.
Demo: Anti-aliased Rounded corners Demo.
Download: Anti-aliased Rounded corners Download.

11. jScrollPane

Description: jScrollPane is a jquery plugin which allows you to replace the browsers default vertical scrollbars on any block level element with an overflow:auto style. You can easily control the apperance of the custom scrollbars using simple CSS.
Demo: jScrollPane Demo.
Download: jScrollPane Download.

12. jQuery Date Picker

Description: This jQuery plugin allows you to easily add “date picker” calendars to you HTML forms. These calendars make it much quicker, easier and less error prone for people to input certain types of dates.
Demo: jQuery Date Picker Demo.
Download: jQuery Date Picker Download.

13. jQZoom

Description: jQZoom allows you to realize a small magnifier window close to the image or images on your web page easily. Great for an image gallery.
Demo: jQZoom Demo.
Download: jQZoom Download.

14. jQuery Star Rating Plugin

This is a fully degradable plugin that creates the Star Rating interface based on a simple form structure. Simple and easy, I love it.
Demo, Download and Details: jQuery Star Rating Plugin Homepage.

15. jquery.combobox

jquery.combobox is an unobtrusive way of creating a HTML type combobox from a existing HTML Select element(s).
Features: Easy to set up ; Control over style of combobox using CSS ; Supports keyboard navigation ; Cross-browser support with Firefox 2, IE 6 and Opera 9 ; Different style of animation for dropdown ; Original Select html control is still available for access and control and reflects the user’s selection ; Works the same with forms and server-side form processing, retaining the original control’s ID and updated values.
Demo, Download and Details: jquery.combobox Homepage.

16. Scrollable HTML table

This JavaScript code can be used to convert tables in ordinary HTML into scrollable ones. No additional coding is necessary. All you need to do is put header rows (if you need them) in THEAD section, table body rows in TBODY section, footer rows (if you need them) in TFOOT section.
Demo, Download and Details: Scrollable HTML table Homepage.

17. Accessible News Slider

Accessible News Slider is only 2KB compressed! I love this, very smooth, small file, and rich in detail. Its easy to install as well. Perfect.
Demo, Download and Details: Accessible News Slider Homepage.

18. Damn Small Rich Text Editor v0.2

This piece of code creates a Rich Text Editor (”RTE”) from an IFRAME element.This script’s purpose is to provide enough basic functionality while having the smallest footprint possible.
Demo, Download and Details: Damn Small Rich Text Editor v0.2 Homepage.

19. jFlow 1.2 – The Ultra-lightweight Fluid Content Slider

jFlow is a widget to make your content slides. One popular alternative that exists out there is coda-slider. jFlow is super lightweight because it is only 2kb minified!
Demo, Download and Details: jFlow 1.2 – The Ultra-lightweight Fluid Content Slider Homepage.

20. Easy jQuery Pull Quotes

Pull quotes, lift-out quotes, or call-outs are a handy method of drawing reader’s attention to a section of text. This enhances large blocks of text so the user could skim read them without missing the really important parts.
Demo, Download and Details: Easy jQuery Pull Quotes Homepage.

Below, there are 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…). Hope they help.

Subscribe via RSS or Follow us on Twitter

Share This Post

There are 16 Comments › Leave your comment

Remy Sharp
21 Jul, 2008

Great list, thanks for the couple of links.

Thought I’d mention that jQuery for Designers http://jqueryfordesigners.com is also jQuery dedicated Video PodCast with monthly screencasts. Cheers!

Reply
Chris Spooner
21 Jul, 2008

That’s one big roundup! As someone who has just started learning jQuery thanks for compiling such useful information

Reply
United Voices
21 Jul, 2008

To name a few, i like jQuery Virtual Tour, Flexigrid, Img Notes. the rest are also equally good.

Reply
Imran Khan
22 Oct, 2008

This is an excellent effort to share the jquery work with other developers.
Thanks for your help.

Reply
Alberto
19 Jan, 2009

I have made a complete jQuery Reference Manual (Cheat Sheet) on my site ComputerSpace.jQuery.
Using jQuery…of course !
ciao alberto

Reply
Jeremy
3 Mar, 2009

Great list! I’m a big fan of virtual tour.

If I could suggest a more traditional gallery, I would go with PikaChoose to display multiple images on a single page.

Reply
Boby Thomas
15 Apr, 2009

Hmm…cool collection…

Reply
juan Medín Piñeiro
16 Jun, 2009

Wow! This is awesome: information, code, examples… Fantastic work. It can become a global reference page for jQuery on the web. Thank you !

Reply
Dean
20 Jun, 2009

I would add http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com to the list as well. It’s great resource for jquery beginners as well as pro jquery developers.

Reply
Blarnee.com
3 Aug, 2009

Awesome list (any chance of an update for 2009? ;)

In the mean time, I found this guy on Twitter posts TONS of awesome jQuery stuff daily. Worth checking out.

Reply
david demetrius
5 Aug, 2009

thx alot, it’s really useful.

Reply
Linker
16 Oct, 2009

Nice clue to folow ….. thanks a lot.

Reply
George Garchagudashvili
1 Dec, 2009

Really useful and great stuff here,
thanks

Reply
Gaston Robledo
3 Feb, 2010

I made a JQuery plugin that can be useful, this is a crop, zoom, rotate and resize images tool, please try it and give me your thoughts.

http://www.cropzoom.com.ar

Enjoy !!!

Reply
atommedia
4 Feb, 2010

a really cool list, I have been looking for a really cool video gallery, slider effect for ages

Reply
Tushar Capoor
7 Feb, 2010

Hello Guyz

I am using jquery .liscroll

But i dn’t know how to call this script from server side. can any body help me out. my email id is tushar.capoor@gmail.com.
thanxs in advance

Regards
Tushar

Reply