Fast and powerful jQuery can help designers and developers create great interactive websites that will be attractive and compatible with most browsers. Your site will be both interesting and entertaining. Navigation, galleries and slideshows are the components that can shine on your site.

This article contains 35 useful and fresh jQuery plugins focused on navigation, galleries, slideshows, calendars, tabs, etc., which will reduce the time and effort required to increase the number of visitors to your site.

jQuery navigation plugins

Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock
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jQuery adds to your site a great many wonderful features. He can do a lot, starting with animation and ending with AJAX functions. This jQuery plugin that uses jqDock can assist you in creating a complete analog widget panel like in Leopard OS. It conveniently hides many gadgets or widgets for which you do not have enough space.



jQuery plugin for keyboard navigation

This plugin provides the ability to navigate items on the page using the arrows on the keyboard.



jQuery plugins

This plugin is designed to create forward / backward navigation and bookmark functions on AJAX pages.

jQuery (mb) Menu 2.6 (New!)

This is a powerful jQuery component for creating a multi-level menu tree or context menu.



jQuery keyboard enhanced navigation plugin

jQuery gallery and slideshow plugins

jQuery.popeye 1.0

Big release of a completely rewritten jQuery.popeye. This is an image gallery plugin that was created as an alternative to the popular JavaScript lightbox.



Pikachoose jQuery Image Gallery ( Demo )

Pikachoose is a lightweight jQuery plugin that provides an easy way to present images with slideshow options and navigation buttons. Pikachoose is designed so that it can be easily installed and configured.



Supersized - jQuery Fullscreen Plugin / Slideshow Plugin ( Demo )

The jQuery Supersized plugin can resize the background image while keeping the aspect ratio. Also, the plugin can change the background images in the form of a slideshow using transitions and preloading. The navigation menu allows you to pause or go back and forth.



Easy Slider 1.5 - The easiest jQuery plugin for image and content slide

Easy Slider 1.5 jQuery plugin has many features, such as automatic slide, long slide, “go to first”, “go to last” buttons, hide control buttons, vertical slide, multiple slides on one page, etc.



jQuery lightbox for images, video files, YouTube, iFramees from Stephane Caron

jQuery prettyPhoto plugin supports not only images. It also supports video files, Flash, YouTube and iFrame. This is a full-fledged media lightbox with useful APIs that can be launched from anywhere, even from a USB drive.



Spacegallery - jQuery plugin

Spacegallery is a JavaScript image gallery with jQuery plugin. After setting the parameters, the images are animated as a perspective. When you click on the first image, it disappears smooth animation and is replaced by the next image. Despite the fact that the plugin is created with one type of navigation, this is a good gallery when you do not have too many images to display.



jquery-rotate - Google Code

This library is an extension of jQuery for rotating images directly in JavaScript. The plugin is quite useful if you need to organize thumbnails of images without synchronizing with images through the server.



Galleriffic - jQuery plugin for visualizing high-speed photo galleries

Galleriffic is a high-performance plugin for working with a large number of photos. Features include preloading images after the page has been loaded, navigation through page-by-page thumbnails, support for bookmarked URL images, a slideshow with optional auto updating of the URL of bookmarks, and support for multiple galleries on one page.



JQuery Cycle Plugin

The jQuery Cycle plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. It supports pause when hovering over the image, automatic stop, forward / backward navigation, and many other effects. It also supports, but does not require the Metadata and Easing plugins.



jQuery Infinite Carousel

jQuery Infinite Carousel is a spinning carousel that works in the same way as a carousel on an Apple Mac's ad page. This guide will tell you about all the properties of this effect and teach you how to create it.



Fancybox

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, HTML content and multimedia. Created using jQuery library.



jQuery Flash plugin

This jQuery plugin is designed to embed Flash movies. Pages are progressively expanded when using Flash and JavaScript and, conversely, with simple (X) HTML. Inspired by SWFObject, UFO and sIFR but fully created for jQuery, this plugin does not require any other scripts, which means less frills, small file size and fast loading.



JQuery Plugin MopBox 2.2

MopBox is a drag and drop container that can contain images, Flash movies, video clips, etc. If it contains more than one item, then navigation is automatically shown. Size can be changed.



Jquery media plugin

jQuery Media Plugin supports converting standard layout to display content. It can be used to embed almost any media content, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF, etc.

jQuery calendars and date pickers

New jQuery Weekly Calendar Plugin

This jQuery weekly calendar plugin is easy to integrate into your jQuery-UI based application. It is based on the common calendar plugin, uses the same event names and, most importantly, uses the same format for the date. Now both plugins can be used on the same site, working with the same data source and similar programming style.



Transcendent jQuery Date Range Selector

Transcendent jQuery Date Range Selector + Short Cuts is packaged into a convenient archive for download and even a beginner can enjoy the superb improvements in the standard date pick plugin.



jNathanson.com

This is a jQuery timing plugin. To try different configuration settings, make settings on the demo, and then click on the clock.

jQuery tabbing plugins

tabSwitch

tabSwitch is a jQuery tab plugin. With this plugin you can create a tabulation system with less code usage. At the moment you can choose from 7 different effects with 2 output styles.



Autotab: jQuery auto-tab and filter plugin

Autotab is a jQuery plugin for auto-tabbing and filtering text fields in a form. As soon as the maximum number of characters in a text field is reached, the cursor automatically moves to the next defined field. In the same way, if you delete the contents of a field by pressing the Backspace key, the cursor will move to the previous field. The purpose of this plugin is to create auto-tabulation among a variety of text fields.



idTabs



jQuery Tabbed Content Rotator

jQuery UI is a jQuery library that provides the ability to create interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects.

Other useful jQuery plugins

jQuery plugin fade and slide switch

The jQuery slidetoggle () function is great, but this plugin supports transparency in the slide animation. This is a small plugin, but it contains a large number of effects.



jQuery pageSlide by Scott Robbin

jQuery pageSlide was inspired by the work of Aza Raskin's UI (Aza Raskin), who introduced the idea of ​​content sliding to display secondary (below the top slide) content. This plugin allows web developers to create a similar function on their sites using several lines of JavaScript. By attaching the method to the anchor, pageSlide creates a container with the original content and adds an extra block to load the secondary content. The slide is animated by calling the action with the mouse button.



s3Slider jQuery plugin

jQuery s3Slider plugin shows layer appearance. It can be at the top of the page or below, on the left side or on the right, or a layer can appear everywhere (on the left side, on the right side, below and above).



jqModal :: Minimalistic Modaling for jQuery

jqModal is a jQuery plugin for displaying notifications, dialogs and message boxes in the browser. This is a flexible and tiny plugin, which is a good base for the framework of general purpose windows.



markItUp! Universal Markup Editor

markItUp! not a full editor. Instead, it is a fairly lightweight, customizable and flexible plugin for use in CMS, blogs, forums or websites. markItUp! not a visual editor.

Other resources

JQuery localization

Localization works by adding language indicators to the name of the base package for download. If no language has been selected, the default browser language will be used.



Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins

jQuery makes our life easier. It makes it so much easier that we cannot restrain ourselves and not use it everywhere, knowing that this will increase the page load time.



All Marked Up / Projects / jQuery URL Parser

jQuery plugin for parsing URLs and providing simple access to information, such information as protocol, host, port.



File Style Plugin for jQuery

Browsers do not allow us to style the file upload forms. File Style plugin fixes this problem. The plugin allows us to use the image for the Browse button. You can also style the file name field using CSS. The plugin is written using javascript and jQuery.