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The jQuery developer community has always been one of the most generous and hardworking group of people on the web.

As most of the community been constantly churning out amazingly useful and completely free tools to share with anyone and everyone who wants to use them.  So for today’s post I’ve search high and low to gather 10 fresh & awesome jQuery plugins that will help you refresh your projects up or even create new projects.

1. jQRangeSlider

jQRangeSlider

A powerful slider for selecting value ranges, supporting dates and more.

2. jQuery Store Location Plugin

jQuery-Store-Locator-Plugin

This jQuery plugin takes advantage of Google Maps API version 3 to create an easy to implement store locator. No back-end programming is required, you just need to feed it KML, XML, or JSON data with all the location information. How you create the data file is up to you.

3. jQuery Form Validate

jQuery Form Validate

jQuery Form Validate is a jQuery plugin that helps validate your HTML forms. It takes validation rules from the HTML 5 data attributes applied to each input. For example, let’s assume we have a first_name text input in our form. We want our first name field to be required and have a length of at least 5 characters. The HTML markup would look like this:

4. Swipebox

swipebox

A simple runner/stopwatch jQuery plugin for counting time up and down.

5. Textillate.js

textillate

Textillate.js combines some awesome libraries to provide an ease-to-use plugin for applying CSS3 animations to any text.

6. cssParentSelector.js

cssParent Selector

cssParentSelector is a polyfill based on jQuery that allows you to use parent selector in CSS.

7. ScrollUp

scrollUp

ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable “Scroll to top” feature that will work with any website, with ease.

8. Toolbar.js

toolbar

Toolbar allows you to quickly create tooltip style toolbars for use in web applications and websites. The toolbar is easily customisable using the twitter bootstrap icons and provides flexability around the toolbars display and number of icons.

9. jQuery Sortable

jquery-sortable

jQuery Sortable is a flexible, opinionated sorting plugin. It enables items in a list (or table etc.) to be sorted horizontally and vertically using the mouse. Supports nested lists and pure drag/drop containers.  jQuery Sortable does not depend on jQuery UI and works well with Twitter’s Bootstrap (You can even sort the Bootstrap navigation).

10. Simple Fade Slideshow

simplefadeslideshow

Simple Fade SlideShow is a very simple and easy to use fade-image slideshow. Its structure is very flexible and you can use it for image and / or content transition. Simple Fade SlideShow is highly customizable with CSS and it can either create the list and buttons automatically or you can create your own individual elements and Simple Fade SlideShow will only bind the relevant functions.

 

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10 Fresh & Awesome jQuery Plugins