24 Best jQuery Scripts to Visually Improve Website

jQuery plugins collection for website projects for web designers and web developers. This set contains jQuery sliders, image galleries, slideshow plugins, jQuery navigation menus, interactive calendar, image rotators, plugins for tabs, accordion menus, user interface elements, web contact forms, modal windows, tooltips and many other fresh jQuery solutions collected in one place.

Free jQuery Scripts

Lazy Load

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in long web pages.

Catch404

Catch404 is a jQuery and CSS3 modal plugin for handling broken links elegantly.

Waypoint

Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.

wdCalendar

wdCalendar is a jquery based google calendar clone. It cover most google calendar features. Day/week/month view provided, create/update/remove events by drag & drop, easy way to integrate with database, and much more.

SliderNav

SlliderNav is a plugin that lets you add dynamic, sliding content using a vertical navigation bar (index). It is made mainly for alphabetical listings but can be used with anything, however longer words may look slightly awkward. The plugin automatically adds the navigation and sets the height for the object based on how tall the navigation is, in order to make sure users have access to the entire list.

Nivo Slider

Awesome jQuery image slider includes features: 9 unique transition effects, simple clean & valid markup, loads of settings to tweak, built in directional and control navigation, packed version only weighs 6kb, Supports linking images and free to use and abuse under the GPL license.

Uniform

Uniform masks your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.

jFlickrFeed

jFlickrFeed is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to pull Flickr feeds and display them on your site.

Chromatable jQuery Plugin

A jQuery plugin to create scrolling tables with fixed headers. A jQuery plugin to keep the code contained in one location and allow users to call the chromatable method on any table, or many tables on the same page.

Easy Slider

Easy Slider enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css.

SimpleModal

SimpleModal is a lightweight jQuery plugin that provides a simple interface to create a modal dialog.

Sticky Sidebar

This jQuery plugin allows you to set a number of sidebar or floating boxes that follow the user down the page as they scroll. The plugin uses absolute positioning calculated from the original css and offset to either the closest positioned parent or to the document. The plugin has been tested in IE6-9 and all the other major browsers.

Better Checkboxes

In this short tutorial, we will be creating a replacement for the default browser checkboxes in the form of a simple jQuery plugin. It will progressively enhance your forms but at the same time fall back to the default controls if JavaScript is unavailable.

Like it? Tweet it!

Like it? Tweet it! is a jQuery-powered JavaScript widget that enables visitors to your website or blog to write a tweet about the site directly in a box displayed in the corner of the website, with a link to the site already embedded in the input field.

Thumbnails Navigation Gallery

In this tutorial you can learn to create an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation. You can use jQuery and CSS3 properties for the style. The main idea is to have a menu of albums where each item will reveal a horizontal bar with thumbnails when clicked. The thumbnails container will scroll automatically when the user moves the mouse to the left or right.

Sausage UI for Contextual Pagination

Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. It complements long or infinite-scrolling pages by keeping the user informed of her location within the document.

elRTE

elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. You can use it in any commercial or non-commercial projects.

Diagonal Fade

Diagonal fade is a jQuery plugin allowing you to easily specify direction, fade-in, fade-out, and a host of other options to a grouping of elements. All you have to do is import it, specify the container to which the group of items resides, and poof, you’re off and away.

jRumble

jRumble is a jQuery plugin that rumbles, vibrates, shakes, and rotates any element you choose. It’s great to use as a hover effect or a way to direct attention to an element.

ImageLens

Use this jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image

Backstretch

Backstretch is a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized background image to any page. The image will stretch to fit the page, and will automatically resize as the window size changes.

Uploadify

This plugin allows you to change any element with an ID on your page into a single or multiple file upload tool. The plugin uses a mix of JQuery, Flash, and a backend upload script of your choice to send files from your local computer to your website server.

TN3 Gallery

TN3 Gallery is a jQuery image gallery with slideshow, transitions effects, multiple album options, CSS skinning and much more. It’s compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers.

Lightbox Me

Lightbox_me handles overlay resize when the window is resized, overlay size in cases where the document is smaller than the window, position fixed in all browsers and position fixed automatically swaps to position absolute when the window size is smaller than the modal, so the user can scroll to see the contents.