Awesome jQuery Sliders for your Inspiration

jQuery is a coding language that is a branch from JavaScript. jQuery works like JavaScript where its used to help with interaction and effects with your development code. jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License or the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

Content sliders are a great way to show large amount of content or images on a smaller area in a website or blog. Today, we have gathered an impressive jQuery sliders that you can implement into your website. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful showcase.

1. Saloon

Saloon is a jQuery Banner Rotator which animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library. Easy installation, great transitions and text animations define the freshline style.

2. Animated JavaScript Slideshow

This dynamic JavaScript slideshow is feature packed and under 5KB. It is the long awaited update to my previous script here. A few new features include description support, link support, no naming restrictions, portrait image support, graceful degradation and active thumbnail status.

3. jQuery Banner Rotator / Content Slider / Carousel

All in one banner rotator is powerful jQuery plugin that you can be configured to act as Banner Rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider and Carousel.

4. Thumbnails Navigation Gallery with jQuery

Thumbnails Navigation Gallery with jQuery is an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation. It has a menu of albums where each item can reveal a horizontal bar with thumbnails when clicked.

5. Dual Slider

With DualSlider, you can slide your images while leaving a space for the description and other details.

6. Chop Slider 2 jQuery Plugin

Chop Slider 2 – is the one of the greatest and the most eyecatching animated jQuery image sliders with over the 150 predefined effects, including 3D effects! Chop Slider uses full power of CSS3 animation (2D and 3D transform transitions), has own CSS3 2D Transforms and 3D Transforms support detection and works a little bit different (but still awesome) in old (and Internet Explorer) browsers.

7. Piece Maker

Piecemaker is a open source Flash image slider that displays images with 3D slice effects. The slide images can be configured from a XML file like setting the tween type, distance, time, delay, etc.

8. s3Slider jQuery Plugin

S3Slider has a very smooth transition made by example of jd`s smooth slide show script. It is very easy to use. First include the jQuery library then include the s3Slider javascript in the head of the page(s) where you want to use s3Slider.

9. Anything Slider

AnythingSlider brings together the functionality of all previous sliders and their features.

10. jQuery Flipbook Slider

jQuery Flipbook Slider is a lightweight jQuery plugin for flipping pages effect. It can be used with any content: text, html, iframes, videos, flash (swf) etc. You can customize it easily with CSS.

11. Blog Slide Show

BlogslideShow is a free open code JQuery plugin that enhances your blog pages with fancy image viewer, which provides nice transition effects including CSS3/HTML5-related ones.

12. Rama – The jQuery Slider Plugin

This jQuery Slider Plugin animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library (21 transition and 10 object animation effects available). Easy installation, state-of-the-art transitions and text animations define the freshline style.

13. Cloud Carousel

This carousel features optional auto-reflections, and the information contained in the Alt and Title tags of the images can optionally be displayed as you hover over each image.

14. Evo Slider Pro – jQuery Slider Plugin

Evo Slider is an all in one jQuery slider that lets you create any type of content slider and give you the flexibility to use it in a variety of ways – whether you’re building anything from an image gallery, to a banner rotator and lots of things in-between.

15. Coin Slider

This jQuery slider features smooth transition effects and is compatible with Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+

16. Layer Slider – The Parallax Effect Slider

This is a jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers.

17. jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow

This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin’s parameters.

18. Sliding Boxes and Captions

The animation of the sliding element of this plugin either show or cover up the viewing area, thus creating the sliding effect.

19. AviaSlider – jQuery Slideshow

AviaSlider is a very flexible and easy to use Image slideshow plugin for jQuery with a set of really unique transitions that were never available before, as well as some basic transitions, so the slider will fit into every project.

20. Nivo Slider

Nivo slider is an awesome jQuery slider that features smooth transition, keyboard navigation and html captions.