14 jQuery Plugins for Enhanced Content Viewing
Whether you need to display content within a limited amount of space or you just want to make a section of your website more engaging, jQuery is an excellent solution. With jQuery you can easily create accordion style content boxes, image galleries, and content sliders. Here are 14 excellent jQuery plugins for adding this type of functionality to your site.
Accordion
Coda-Slider
Easy Slider
ThickBox
AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin
Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
GALLERIA
jCarousel
jQuery.ScrollTo
Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview
toggleElements
jQuery virtual tour
Featured Content Glider
InnerFade
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14 comments
Marcell Purham
October 23, 2009I was looking for something like this since I love jquery and I found it.
Great List!
designfollow
October 23, 2009thanks for this great post.
Paul Olyslager
October 23, 2009A nice summary of very usable plugins. I’m using the jCarousel, but this one is not working in Safari unfortunatly… I’ll have to find another one, so any suggestions would be fine
Cheers
leon
October 23, 2009Great post!
Paul, have you tried jQuery Cycle Plugin? Works really nice! http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/
Zack
December 29, 2009Very nice Plugin, thanks.
Ryan Turki
October 23, 2009Great Post !!!
Thank you !!!
Ray Schwartz
October 23, 2009I like this combination of Galleria and jCarousel
http://alexwilsonphoto.com/gallery/showcase/showcase4/
Works in Safari 4 Mac for me.
There are some tweaks to be made to this implementation but this is a good starting point. Not sure how updated Galleria has been lately. The back button does not work as expected when landing on a gallery but other than that I love this combo.
Greg
October 23, 2009Thickbox no longer supported. I like lytebox.js
Greg D
October 23, 2009Thanks for the list. some definite classics/regulars on it but also some I’ve never seen but will have to check up on (like “Inner Fade”)
Batfan
October 23, 2009Nice list! Although for a lightbox, I would recommend ColorBox instead
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
Inside the Webb
October 25, 2009Web Design Ledger has never let me know with a disappointing post, and I have to say this is just another gem in the collection. Nice post guys thanks for it!
Adam Hermsdorfer
November 1, 2009Innerfade can be an excellent flash alternative. Good list.
Justin
November 3, 2009Great post! I gave it a stumble.
Adam
May 20, 2010A couple of tools I use are and suggest:
Likno Web Modal Windows Builder (jquery modal windows):
http://www.likno.com/jquery-modal-windows/index.php
Likno Web Tooltips Builder (jquery tooltips):
http://www.likno.com/jquery-tooltips/index.php
they have done great work