25 Amazingly Fresh jQuery Plugins From February

Every month, we will feature the best and freshest jQuery plugins we collected from around the web and we will showcase them as part of this end-of-month roundup.  You can suscribe to the RSS feed or follow us on Twitter to get the latest roundups each month and to keep up with our daily posts.  Without any furthur ado, here are the jQuery plugins for the month of February:

Arctext.js is a JQuery plugin which allows us to rotate letter with ease. While CSS3 allows us to rotate letters, it is quite complicated to arrange each letter along a curved path. Based on Lettering.js, it calculates the right rotation of each letter and distributes the letters equally across the imaginary arc of the given radius.  The main idea behind the Arctext plugin is to rotate letters with CSS3 transforms in order to place them along a curved path. The curve is always a segment of a circle (hence arc) for which the radius can be specified. The space and rotation for each letter will be calculated using that radius and the width of the text.

Requirements: JQuery Library
Demo: http://tympanus.net/Development/Arctext/
License: MIT License


Kendo UI provides everything you need for building modern, interactive, JavaScript applications. In addition to having more than 10 UI widgets, including a Grid, Chart, and ComboBox, Kendo delivers a rich framework for client-side data binding, templating, animation, and drag-and-drop actions. Don't waste time trying to find and use tons of scattered jQuery plug-ins. Kendo UI incorporates a seamless, professionally tested and supported HTML5 toolbox for every project.

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://demos.kendoui.com/
License: GPLv3


Pointer.js is a JQuery plugin which shows an animated 'hoop' spread around the mouse pointer after left clicking on a webpage.  It is very lightweight and is free to use. The website is in Japanese though, although it can be translated.


Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://blog.nejimaki-act.com/pointer-js/
License: Not Specified, Free To Use


slabText splits headlines into rows before resizing each row to fill the available horizontal space. The ideal number of characters to set on each row is calculated by dividing the available width by the CSS font-size – the script then uses this ideal character count to split the headline into word combinations that are displayed as separate rows of text.

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/slabText/
License: MIT License/GPL2


Stellar.js is a jQuery plugin that provides parallax scrolling effects to any scrolling element.

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://markdalgleish.com/projects/stellar.js/demos
License: MIT License


Quicksearch.js is a  JQuery based plug-in for filtering large data sets (tables) with user input.

Requirements: Jquery
Demo: http://lomalogue.com/jquery/quicksearch/super_table.html
License: MIT License or GPL


blur.js is a JQuery plugin that produces psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements.


Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://blurjs.com/simpledemo.html
License: Not Specified, possibly MIT License/GPL


turn.js is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine for HTML5.

• Uses Hardware acceleration
• Works on tablets and smartphones
• Easy to manipulate
• Lightweight, only 15K

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://turnjs.com
License: MIT License


JQuery Collapse plugin delivers an accessible and lightweight solution to a widely adopted interface pattern (known as progressive disclosure). It includes features like cookie persistence, ARIA compliance, and is designed to be flexible and modular enough to be used in many different't scenarios.

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://webcloud.se/code/jQuery-Collapse/
License: MIT License, BSD, GPL


accessifyhtml5.js is a small JavaScript Library which adds  ARIA accessibility attributes to enhance accessibility of web sites.  While most browsers work all right with the new semantic elements of HTML5, they don’t add the ARIA accessibility attributes that the specification demands.  accessifyhtml5.js is available in a JQuery version too.

Requirements: None
Demo: https://github.com/yatil/accessifyhtml5.js
License: MIT License


noty is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create alert, success, error and confirmation messages as an alternative the standard alert dialog. Each notification is added to a queue.  The notifications can be positioned at the top, bottom, centre, top left or top right.  There are lots of other options in the API to customise the text, animation, speed, buttons and much more.  It also has various callbacks for the buttons, opening closing the notifications and queue control.

Requirements: JQuery
Demo: http://needim.github.com/noty/
License: MIT License


Curtains.js allows you to create a web page with multiple fixed panels that unroll with an amusing effect. Exactly like a curtain rises.  To navigate, you can use your keyboard instead the scroll bar or your mousewheel to navigate into the document. But that's not all, there is more features! For example, you can easily add a fixed element or multiple "steps" element into a panel. 

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://curtain.victorcoulon.fr/
License: MIT License


Page Scroller is a powerful JavaScript based smooth-scrolling navigation plugin that utilizes the robust jQuery library. Created entirely with ease of use in mind, it will work on any website.

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://pagescroller.com/
License: BSD License


jQuery.localStorageTextareas is a jQuery plugin which saves textareas to localStorage when the data-save-id attribute is defined as a unique string identifier for that textarea.  Written by the fine people at teambox.com, below are the additional features of the jQuery plugin:

• Typing on a textarea will save its value locally every 200 ms.
• Clicking on an empty textarea will load the saved value if there is one.
• Calling $(selector).loadSavedTextareas() will restore textareas saved.

Requirements: underscore.js, jQuery
Demo: https://github.com/micho/jquery.localStorageTextareas/...
License: MIT License


TypeSequence is a jQuery Plugin which lets you fire a callback following a typed sequence of characters.

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: https://github.com/arjaneising/TypeSequence/blob/master/demo.html
License: MIT License

Glisse.js is a simple, responsive and fully customizable jQuery photo viewer. You'll like the transitions between two pictures entirely assumed by CSS3.  Below are the features of this plugin:

• Keyboard navigation
• Fully CSS Customizable
• Animated with CSS3 keyframes
• 7 different transition effects
• Scale to the viewport
• iPad & iPhone ready (soon a fully Android support)

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://glisse.victorcoulon.fr/example-1/
License: MIT License


Zoomooz.js is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin for making any web page element zoom.  This jQuery plugin works in all major browsers, including: Internet Explorer 9, Safari 3 and newer, Firefox 3.6 and newer, recent versions of Opera and Chrome.

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://janne.aukia.com/zoomooz/
License: MIT License or GPL


Enscroll is a jQuery plugin that gives you the power to replace those scrollbars rendered by the web browser with ones that you design. Either replace the scrollbars with your own image or use custom CSS to style them anyway you desire.



Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://enscrollplugin.com/#!/demos
License: GPL v2


Notifier.js is a jQuery plugin for Gnome/Growl type non-blocking notifications.

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://opensource.srirangan.net/notifier.js/
License: MIT License


Sharrre is a jQuery plugin that allows you to create nice widgets sharing for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus (with PHP script) and more.  All sharing buttons are different, with Sharrre you can create uniform buttons to integrate with your designs.  With Sharrre, the API buttons are called on demand and once, regardless of how many buttons you have.


Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://sharrre.com
License: MIT License


Scrollable Table is jQuery plugin converts a properly formatted table, having thead and tbody elements (tfoot optional), into a scrollable table. Scrollable tables are most useful when having to display lots of tubular data in a fixed space.


Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://www.farinspace.com/jquery-scrollable-table-plugin/
License: Free


Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.  Making good-looking graphs shouldn't be hard and Morris.js simplifies this job.

Requirements: jQuery and Raphaël
Demo: http://oesmith.github.com/morris.js/#examples
License: Simplified BSD License


Chico UI is a free and open source collection of easy-to-use web tools for developers and designers.  Built on top of jQuery, these tools brings known interaction patterns for your website taking advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 features.


Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://chico-ui.com.ar/widgets
License: MIT License


TOC is a jQuery plugin that will automatically generate a table of contents for your page. The following are its features:

• Completely customizable
• Click to smooth scroll to that spot on the page
• Automatically highlight the current section
• Extremely lightweight (744 bytes gzipped)
• Can have multiple on a page

Requirements: jQuery
Demo: http://projects.jga.me/toc/
License: MIT License


ICanHaz.js is a simple and powerful client-side templating solution, which can work in tandem with Mustache and JQuery or Zepto.js.


Requirements: JQuery, Mustache.js, Zepto.js
Demo: http://icanhazjs.com/
License: MIT License

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