Loadie.js is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a preloader that doesn't suck.
Parallax.js is simple, lightweight Parallax Engine that reacts to the orientation of a smart device. Where no gyroscope or motion detection hardware is available, the position of the cursor is used instead.
Tabby is a lightweight JavaScript and CSS kit for mobile-first toggle tabs. It's style-light so you can easily modify it to fit your design.
A simple and lighweight jQuery plugin for cascading dropdowns.
The plugin allows you to implement a cascading dropdown using multiple select boxes in which one select box depends on the input from one or more separate select boxes. Once one or all (depending on the configuration) required select boxes contain a value, it will trigger an event that will fire off the dependant select box so it will fetch its own list.
modalBox.js is a very light weight modal window plugin packed with only most used features and options. Its overall size is around 5.3 kb ( 2.5 kb minified). You can easily extend it according to your need.
PicTip is a jQuery plugin that adds handy tooltips to your images, slideshows, sliders and more.
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jQuery.waterfall is jQuery plugin for Pinterest like waterfall layout. It’s lightweight version of fluid columns masonry layout of isotope. It's fast, tiny, reliable and free alternative to isotope masonry column shift layout.
ChatJS is a full-featured, lightweight, Facebook style jQuery plugin for instant messaging. ChatJS also comes with a server side implementation for ASP.NET/SignalR out of the box.
This is a stupidly simple, absurdly lightweight jQuery table sorting plugin. As long as you understand basic JavaScript sorting, you can make this plugin do as much or as little as you want.
glDatePicker is an ultra-simple, customizable, light-weight date picker plugin for jQuery.
Photobox is a lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses CSS3 heavily for silky-smooth animations and transitions. The goal was to great an image gallery script that utilizes GPU rending instead is the 90% scripts out there which are using javascript to move things around the old fashioned way.
Supports: Firefox, Chrome and IE9+ (works in an ugly way which the users deserve)
Portfoliojs is a lightweight jQuery gallery plugin for your beautiful images with horizontal scrolling which supports desktop, tablet and mobile browsers.
ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slider using list items inside <ul>
. It works with wide range of browsers including all IE versions from IE6 and up.
Biggest difference to other responsive slider plugins is the file size (1kb minified and gzipped) + that this one doesn't try to do everything.
Tiny Circleslider is a circular slider / carousel. That was built to provide webdevelopers with a cool but subtle alternative to all those standard carousels. Tiny Circleslider can blend in on any wepage. It was built using the javascript jQuery library.
Picbox is a lightweight (around 5KB) javascript image viewer based on the excellent Slimbox, and available using either the jQuery frameworks. It features automatic resizing and zooming of large images, allowing them to fit in the browser or be viewed at full size.
Also Picbox WordPress plugin is now available.