Here are 40 fresh essential jQuery plugins to manipulate DOM elements easily, handle events, AJAX your content, and create all the other cool features that make the web go ’round.
jquerymy.js
jQuery.my is a plugin for real time two-way data binding. It mutates object given as data source, reflecting interactions between user and UI.
Datedropper
A pretty good-looking jQuery plugin for managing dates for input fields.
jsGrid
jsGrid is a lightweight client-side data grid control based on jQuery. It supports basic grid operations like inserting, filtering, editing, deleting, paging and sorting. jsGrid is flexible and allows to customize appearance and components.
matchHeight
matchHeight makes the height of all selected elements exactly equal. It handles many edge cases that cause similar plugins to fail.
peekABar
A jQuery plugin for a notification bar with a lot of customization options.
lightGallery
A customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery plugin for jQuery.
Squirrel.js
Improve form usability with this tiny jQuery plugin that temporarily stores field values in HTML5 sessionStorage as users type.
Picture Cut
Picture Cut is a jquery plugin that handles images in a very friendly and simple way, with a beautiful interface based on bootstrap or jquery ui, has great features like ajax upload, drag image from explorer, image crop and others.
PWS Tabs jQuery Plugin
PWS Tabs is a lightweight jQuery tabs plugin to create responsive flat style tabbed content panels with some cool transition effects powered by CSS3 animations.
Browser detection
Detect specifically Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Kindle, BlackBerry, Chrome OS, and Windows Phone useragents.
International Telephone Input
A jQuery plugin for entering and validating international telephone numbers.
FocusPoint
jQuery plugin for ‘responsive cropping’. Dynamically crop images to fill available space without cutting out the image’s subject. Great for full-screen images.
Social Feed
A jQuery plugin that shows a user feed from the most popular social networks.
SmartMenus
Advanced jQuery website menu plugin. Mobile first, responsive and accessible list-based website menus that work on all devices.
Textrange
A jQuery plugin for getting, setting and replacing the selected text in input fields and textareas.
jQuery Hero Slider Plugin
jQuery plugin to create a full-width, responsive and easy to customize image slider.
onScreen
A jQuery plugin that does stuff when the matched elements are visible (as inside the viewport).
Filer
Simple HTML5 File Uploader, a plugin tool for jQuery which change completely File Input and make it with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, different validations, thumbnails, icons, instant upload, print-screen upload and many other features and options.
Morphext
A simple, high-performance and cross-browser jQuery rotating / carousel plugin for text phrases powered by Animate.css.
metisMenu
A jQuery menu plugin.
Sumoselect
A jQuery plugin that progressively enhances an HTML Select Box into a Single/Multiple option dropdown list. The dropdown list can be fully customiseable using siple css properties. It can adapt itself according to any deveice, keeping in mind that the User Experience is not broken.
Circle progress
jQuery Plugin to draw animated circular progress bars.
Scrollify
A jQuery plugin that assists scrolling and smoothly snaps to sections. Fully configurable and optimised for touch.
localize.js
A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to i18n your static web site.
Pongstagram
jquery plugin that displays your instagram media to your web page.
Vide
Easy as hell jQuery plugin for video backgrounds.
jQuery UI Slider Pips
Plugin for adding little ‘pips’ , ‘floats’ and labels to a slider.
Gridder
A jQuery plugin that displays a thumbnail grid expanding preview similar to the effect seen on Google Images.
panelSnap
A jQuery plugin that provides snapping functionality to a set of panels within your interface.
Countdown
The ultimate countdown plugin designed to fit in any coupon, auction site or product launch.
HideSeek
A simple, mobile-friendly, yet customizable quick/live search jQuery plugin.
Midnight
A jQuery plugin that switches between multiple header designs as you scroll, so you always have a header that looks great with the content below it.
Simple Parallax Scrolling
Parallax.js is a dirt simple parallax scrolling effect inspired by Spotify.com and implemented as a jQuery plugin.
Featherlight
Featherlight is a very lightweight jQuery lightbox plugin. It’s simple yet flexible and easy to use. Featherlight has minimal css and uses no inline styles, everything is name-spaced, it’s completely customizable via config object and offers image, ajax and iframe support out of the box.
Waterpipe
waterpipe.js is a jQuery plugin for smoky backgrounds generation (HTML5 Canvas).
jQuery Bar Rating
jQuery Bar Rating Plugin works by transforming a standard select field into a rating widget. The rating widget can be flexibly styled with CSS.
Drawer
A small CSS3 and jQuery plugin for app style drawer menu.
BigText
jQuery plugin, calculates the font-size and word-spacing needed to match a line of text to a specific width.
Prezento
Show off your responsive web designs. Include the plugin, apply the settings and you’re ready to impress your visitors!
Interactive BG
Create an interactive moving background/object that reacts to viewer’s cursor.
