In web design, a jQuery carousel is an element giving visitors easy and visible access to several content items.

It is typically a dynamic scrolling list of items in horizontal order where previous and next items are partially visible. The items, consisting of HTML content, images, videos etc. can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animated transitions).

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Using sliding horizontal panels, known, as Carousels and Sliders, to feature top content, is one of the strongest web design trends over the last couple of years. It is a very effective method to increase the web site usability and engage the user.

The reason for this trend is mainly the arrival of jQuery that have made it almost a “walk in the park” to add a jQuery carousel or a jQuery image slider plugin to a web site. There are many great jQuery carousel plugins available today, and it is quite difficult to choose the best.

This article has been created specifically to help you get started using jQuery Carousels, but you may also jQuery Slider plugins. This article was recently updated with new jQuery carousel plugins and all link where checked.



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jQuery Carousel Plugin collection

RoyalSlider – Touch-Enabled jQuery Carousel

Royal Slider is a best selling plugin with more than 30.000 paying users. It is easy to use and it has a beautiful responsive layout. You will get a lot of useful features with this jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin. It has touch screen support, animated captions and 3 different navigation options. Royal SLider is perfect as image slider, website gallery, rotator for banners and carousel slider.

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Boutique carousel

This is a cool premium option for e.g. online shops to show off new products. It is a ready to use jQuery carousel script used to present your images in a unique, smooth and customizable way. You can easily customize the settings and use CSS to match your style and purpose.

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All in one jQuery Banner Rotator / Carousel

Want a carousel plugin that also solves all kinds of slider and banner rotator needs. Then All in one banner rotator could be the jQuery carousel plugin you are looking for. This plugin is a premium option and a regular license cost $10. This jQuery script can be configured to work as content carousel, a banner rotator, thumbnails banner, banner with playlist and content slider. All in one is responsive and it will adapt to fit mobile screens.

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TouchCarousel – jQuery Content Carousel – MORE INFO / DEMO

With TouchCarousel you get a premium carousel solution (regular license cost $10) with a mobile-friendly design. It is a lightweight jQuery script with touch navigation for spoiling mobile and tablet users.

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Layer Slider

This is a premium jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect to impress visitors. It comes with a carousel skin but basically this is more a content slider than a classic carousel design. It is possible to use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. This allows you to build really amazing animations.

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Cloud Carousel – MORE INFO / DEMO

This jQuery carousel is a free carousel plugin. It 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. The carousel features realistic perspective and rotate images in a 3D fashion.

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BX Slider

BX Slider is a responsive and very flexible jQuery HTML Content carousel and Slider. This free option offers both horizontal, vertical, and fade transitions.

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Liquid Carousel

Liquid carousel is a jQuery plugin intended for adding a simple carousel to your web pages. Every time the container of the carousel gets resized, the number of items in the list change to fit the new width.

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Agile jQuery Carousel

Highly customizable jQuery Carousel plugin so you can build according to your requirements. JSON data format is used to provide easier integration with external data or data from your CMS. Use it for agile web development. This is an all new version written from scratch. JQuery UI effects and the ability to read files on the server are no longer included. New features are added, such as “Control Sets” which allow for a more customizable setup. Now posted on Github for faster development.

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jCarousel

With this simple jQuery script, jCarousel, you get a simple carousel solution for sliding items in either horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).

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Feature jQuery carousel

Feature jQuery carousel will always display three images at the same time in a classic carousel style. All the rest of the images will be hidden behind the center image. Users can navigate using paging or number buttons.

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jQuery Timeline Slider

Timeline Slider is a really cool plugin to build your history timelines. It is a premium option. Its main configuration can be easily customized due to its compact config parameters, directly from the html file. Also more configurations can be edited through the css style sheet file. Timeline Slider comes with 2 skins, Dark, Light, to make easy the integration on your web project. The powerful jQuery library makes this component cross-platform.

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Rcarousel

rCarousel – yet another (but super duper) continuous jQueryUI carousel. It has lots of features and good examples.

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Step jQuery Carousel Viewer

Step jQuery Carousel Viewer displays images or even rich HTML by side scrolling them left or right. Users can step to any specific panel on demand, or browse the gallery sequentially by stepping through x number of panels each time. A smooth sliding animation is used to transition between steps. And fear not in taming this script to go exactly where you want it to- two public methods, two custom event handlers, and three “status” variables are here for that purpose.

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jMyCarousel

jMyCarousel is a free, highly customizable, non obstructive carousel written in javascript, based on jquery, and created to suit any need. It enables to display a list or gallery of images in a dynamic way. It can be adapted very easily to any layout, and the way it animates the picture is adaptable.

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Theatre Carousel

This is a premium jQuery Carousel that can do both horizontal and vertical sliders and in particular the horizontal carousel looks awesome.

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