List of Useful jQuery Plugins
I viewed each of the jQuery plugins in the jQuery plugins repository . I couldn’t believe how many there were! So I decided to make this master list to weed out any plugins that were either broken or I didn’t find any practical application for. You will notice I added, “EXCELLENT” to the plugins that I thought were exceptional.
- Accessibility Stylesheet and text size switcher.
- Accordion Accordion interface with a few variations.
- AlphaNumeric Prevent users from inputing special characters.
- Ajax File Upload Loading graphic displays while file is uploaded.
- appendDom Write HTML with JavaScript, great for displaying Ajax results.
- appendText Converts text into post friendly html.
- blockUI EXCELLENT Create a message overlay while blocking user interaction on elements or the entire page.
- BogoFolders View text through a ‘file menu’ interface.
- BogoTabs Basic tabbed interface.
- Bubble Demo highlights selected table rows in groups of tables..
- Calendar Aids date entry.
- Checkbox manipulation Select, unselect and toggle checkboxes.
- Chili EXCELLENT Syntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
- Choose Component Select data from a table row through a modal window.
- Click Menu Generates dropdown menus.
- clueTip Tooltips with many variations.
- Color Animations Add color animations to div backgrounds.
- Color Picker Pass in color choices and attach custom events to each color block.
- columnHover Highlight table rows and columns.
- columnManager Add, remove and toggle table columns.
- ContextMenu – Menus that show when you right click specified elements.
- Confirmer Adds a listener to check if user confirms their action.
- Cycle EXCELLENT Add flash-like image effects to rotating image galleries.
- date picker Aids date entry.
- Delicious Read delicious bookmarks from a user to display on a webpage.
- Dimensions Get accurate window and document attributes across browsers.
- Equalize Columns Make columns the same height as the longest column.
- FCKEditor Plugin Adds a rich text editor to a textarea.
- Field Expand the ability to retrieve and set values in forms.
- Form EXCELLENT Change HTML forms to submit via Ajax.
- Gallery Viewer JavaScript image gallery.
- getUrlParam Function to get url parameters.
- Google Feed Plugin Display any RSS feed to a webpage.
- Gradient Adds a gradient to a div without needing an image.
- Grid Column Sizing Table column draggable resizing.
- Grid Row Sizing Expand and collapse table rows.
- hoverIntent Prevents unintended hover events.
- idTabs Add tabbed interface to a website.
- Impromptu Create modal windows and messages.
- jQuery Localisation Applies localisation packages based on the user’s language preference.
- jBox UI dialog widget.
- jCalendar Aids selecting of dates inline on a page.
- jCarousel Lite Simple carousel for images and HTML content.
- jCodeViewer Syntax highlighting for displaying code on webpages.
- jdMenu Hierarchical Menu Generates dropdown menus.
- jEditable Live editing of elements on a webpage.
- jFeed XML feed parser.
- jPanView Replaces big images with a zoom viewer in HTML.
- jqDnR Drag’n’Resize elements on a page.
- jQMaps Interact with Google maps.
- jqModal Display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser.
- Treetable Make a tree view out of an HTML table.
- Tree View EXCELLENT Tree view controls.
- Suggest Add autocomplete to input fields.
- YAV Form validation library.
- jqUploader Provides a status bar for uploading images.
- jScrollPane Customize your scrollbars.
- jTagEditor EXCELLENT Turn a textarea into a tag editor.
- jVariations Create a control panel to manipulate elements on a page.
- Keyboard Navigation Dynamically determine which element to focus on based on it’s position on the screen.
- labelOver Overlay labels over an input field.
- LavaLamp Navigation menu with a ‘lava’ effect.
- Lazy Load Only load images that are in the current window.
- Live Query Adds event listeners to elements.
- Masked Input Add mask to inputs to aid user data entry (phone numbers, etc).
- Media EXCELLENT Unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content.
- Extra selectors for JQuery Add more selectors to jQuery.
- Mousewheel Mousewheel event handler.
- Mousehold Event Add repeating event as the user holds down the mouse.
- Multiple File Upload Select multiple files one by one as it adds to a queue list.
- newsticker Create a fading news ticker.
- Password Strength Meter Indicator to show the strength of a users password.
- PopupWindow Creates an preview popup of destination link.
- Query String Object Useful for sending URL parameters.
- Select box manipulation Remove and add options from a select list or dropdown in many ways.
- selectCombo Tool for making dependant dropdowns with Ajax.
- Star Rating Generates star rating from input fields
- Grid Dynamic ajax grid control.
- slideViewer Image gallery as slides.
- Spoilers Hide content behind an image until user action is taken.
- tableHover Row and column highlighting with variations.
- tableFilter Search box is added to each column header to filter table.
- tablesorter Client side table sorting.
- Taconite EXCELLENT Easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call.
- Textgrad Add gradients to whole blocks of text.
- Time Entry Sets an input field up to accept a time value.
- Tooltip Add tooltips from title page.
- Validation EXCELLENT Add live validation to forms.
- WYMeditor EXCELLENT Web-based XHTML WYSIWYM editor.
- Zoomi Zoomable thumbnails.
- XSLT Transform XML/XSL from JavaScript.
- XAP Ajax library.
57 comments
Livequery is so very useful, it really should be on this list.
Yeah, it is on the list.
Did you know this plugin?
http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
I don´t have find any related thing in your list.
Regards
No, I didn’t. Thanks I’ll add it to the list – it looks very nice!
Thanks a ton for the great compilation! Even I went through the plugin list at jQuery site, but skipped most of these plugins! The plugins marked EXCELLENT are truly excellent.
jPrintArea is a small jquery plugin to print only contents of a specified element.
http://www.designerkamal.com/jPrintArea/
Awesome list mate.
Thanks for spreading the love.
Thank you. I added it to my list. Great resource!
Thank you. That list is great!
Thank you for compiling this. I’m just getting in to jQuery and it has been invaluable.
Excellent !
Thanks you so much !
The list is great! The link to jTagEditor does not work. Does anyone happen to have a copy of it?
Brandon: I think jTagEditor was superceeded by MarkItUp, which I am using for this comment system.
great work.
Thanks a lot
keep it up
Great list, I’ve actually used quite a bit of these in the past for various things. Just a heads up, but as of the release of jQuery 1.3 the dimensions plug-in is actually a part of the jQuery core, so you can probably remove it from this list of add-ons.
Broken links:
These links mentioned in your post, are broken:
http://benjaminsterling.com/2007/08/24/jquery-jqgalview-photo-gallery
http://brandonaaron.net/jquery/plugins/gradient/test/
I searched around and the gradient code can be found here:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gradient
I didn’t download the code since the author took down his demos, makes me worry.
Very usefull list!
may I suggest this link?
http://pupunzi.wordpress.com/category/jquery/
Thnx
Great list. I’d like to suggest another image gallery as well.
http://www.pikachoose.com/demo
It’s an easy to implement gallery, that allows you to create a flash like gallery from just a UL.
I didn’t see the link for printing the page or something we defined into the paper. Did jQuery didn’t have it yet? Thank you very much for this list. It really useful ;)
Hey,
Its really a great list published.
I am a lover of jQuery and loved it at first sight.
I was in search of a Text Editor but this one is great I think.
Thanks once again.
Great list, printed and bookmarked.
K.
I really like the hover tooltip you’re using for your links. Is it a plugin or something custom you made?
Nice list, as someone learning jQuery it’s nice to see what is out there.
Hi Marc, thanks for the list. I actually ended up bookmarking the page and going through the list one by one… came to the post through google searching for “removing table column” though :)))
For those who share my faith, here is a little jQuery code to remove table column.
Love “media” plugin for its unobtrussivenes :) By the way, Live plugin is built in jQuery 1.3 :)
Thanks for the list.
Excellent information. Finding a few such solutions has taken hours in the past.
Thank u.
Excellent list of plugins. Thanks for the listing.
Hi These plugins and examples are excellent and very useful. Here i have a requirement. I have a table in that i have a column of text boxes. When ever i enter value for one textbox, i should be able to drag the same value among rest or some text boxes in the same column. (Just like Excel) if any one find this kind of example. Kindly mail me please. Thanks in advance.
good work man!! thanks a lot. its really helpfull… keep doing such… :-)
Nice collection man.
Did you have a look at
http://www.geektantra.com/2009/09/jquery-live-form-validation-version-1-1/
Its a form validation plugin. I guess it should go into your list as well.
please update this list
Rellay great list. Thank You!
Very nice list mate. I have also listed your post in my blog titled ‘Ultimate collection of top jQuery tutorials, tips-tricks and techniques to improve performance’ here:
http://technosiastic.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/collection-of-top-jquery-tutorials-tips-tricks-techniques-to-improve-performance/
Nice sharing, Thanks.
The best plugin I have used is Colorbox. It is a replacement for all the lightbox clones
It supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content. and is less than 9KB of JavaScript. You can then control the appearance through CSS.
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
The best plugin I have used is Colorbox. It is a replacement for all the lightbox clones
Nice collection man.
Did you have a look at
Hello,
i created a small jQuery plugin. It crates a post-it board on a webpage like the mac application sticky notes. Could you add it to your list ? You find it here: http://www.jquery-sticky-notes.com/
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
Best Regards → Daniel
jQuery extension that auto generates the table of contents. Properly handles ul/ol indentation to indicate heading level. http://www.robusthaven.com/articles/Auto+generating+the+table+of+contents+with+jQuery
Great jquery collection. Bookmarked !
Thanks for sharing!
I want to auto save my form in cookies after some time interval, I found some codes but not works perfect, Please help in this regard. Thank You
I have bokmarked this page. Nice collection.
Thank for the useful info.
Another good tool is Likno Web Modal Windows Builder (for jquery modal windows)
http://www.likno.com/jquery-modal-windows/index.php
hope this helps!
NIce .. Good List and collection..
Great plugins collention. Thanks for share. Tom
nice plugin dude…hope you share more :) cheers
jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines.
It was developed specifically to fill a gap – that is: a fast, clean, client-side syntax parser.
Please see the project homepage for more information, documentation, download, etc.
http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/software/jquery-syntax
Hey man OSSAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Great List thanx 4 sharing things like this
thanks for share this plugins. i was looking for Google Feed Plugin. Thanks again!
Can u help me find jQuery Plugin to drawing flowchart. Please help me. Thank you.
Thanks, great list!
You should add jqPlot to the list.
Awesome collection.
Many thanks!
Here is a calendar plugin, http://code.google.com/p/jquery-frontier-calendar/
Thanks very nice
Thank you very much great libraries
Nice blog… It helps me so much
Hi, i want to change the contents of a span based on the width, while resizing the jquery dialog window. Is that possible using jquery plugin.
Thank you very much.
I urgently need an easy to use gallery for a client with absolutely no knowledge on html, javascript, php, ajax, etc. whatsoever. I was looking around for some weeks now and couldn’t find anything really appropriate.
So again, thank’s a lot.