If you are interested in adding top class jQuery image sliders on your new or well established website then here you will find the right slider plugins which will assist you to do that properly. Enough though jQuery has simplified the way JavaScript used to work on the browser we are still in need of image sliders to speed up the daily web design and development work. We can modify some of these plugins to make a new slider which is much more efficient for your website
jQuery Image Sliders
jQuery GRIDDER
A jquery plugin to which pops or shows a slide with detailed description of the image on click. The idea has been taken from Google images preview.
- Responsive jquery image slider
- Slidein description
- Smooth Scrolling
Demo | Download
![responsive jquery image slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c7zUtUk8Y-Y/VYYGE09zMcI/AAAAAAAAFwE/qQoM9Uiuy1o/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Useful.Gallery.js: Pinboard Gallery
Using css3 animations and ajax loading, this plugin displays a unique pinboard style gallery which allows multiple options to show images, descriptions etc.
- Touch support
- Responsive Design
- Display Text or images or both
- Thumbnail preview
Demo | Download
![Pinboard Gallery using jquery plugin](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LHWmQh0eRhk/VYYGFiiEioI/AAAAAAAAFwM/EMu_96I6Z1Q/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Expandable Image Gallery
A beautiful gallery plugin which expands on click to showcase a full page preview. A great tool to include in your eCommerce product pages.
- Full screen preview
- Major Browser support
- Responsive design
- Fluid animation
Demo | Download
![Expandable Image Gallery plugin](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aH-Ys-RwJi8/VYYGGCRoQ9I/AAAAAAAAFwQ/ow5S9lbSh-M/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Jssor Responsive Slider
Recently came across this fully functionally jquery slider and it does its work well. There are limitless slider opportunities which can be unlocked with this open source slider plugin.
- Responsive Slider Design
- Over 15 Slider options
- More than 15 image transition effects
- Touch Support
- Image gallery, carousel, full width support
- Vertical , Banner rotater, listing slider.
- Video support
Demo| Download ![jssor](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J27jjrwbuaI/VYYGGk4pIVI/AAAAAAAAFwc/VcMYo5pMx14/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
PgwSlider – Responsive slider for jQuery / Zepto
A single purpose and minimal image slider which is made for just showcasing image slides and nothing more. It is minimal because the jquery code is around 2.5KB making it loading time to a new level.
- Responsive Layout
- SEO Compliant
- All browser support
- Simple fade transition
- 2.5 KB zipped
Demo| Download
![pageslider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J7Bx4v5vo6A/VYYGHDHk-NI/AAAAAAAAFwg/9wP2Z_DkPk0/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Jquery Vertical News Slider
A jquery slider which is responsive and useful for news based websites with slides automated on the left and images displayed on the right.
- Responsive
- Vertical News switches
- Perfect head
Demo| Download
![newslider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U4ssoSpBhb0/VYYGHk6DJaI/AAAAAAAAFws/TxgZN50ygqk/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Wallop Slider
This slider has no jquery but i like to introduce it you people since it is minimal in nature and best options for faster page loads. Let me know if you like this one.
- Responsive slider layout
- Simple design
- Slide transition
- Minimal JavaScript code
- 3KB minified
Demo| Download
![wallop slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nfbRpKfXLyA/VYYGIfk6VeI/AAAAAAAAFw0/AjNnrqEtglQ/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Flat-style Polaroid gallery
A scattered style gallery with responsive design and flat looks will interest many of us. This gallery is better suited for tablets and bigger displays.
- Responsive Slider
- Flat Design
- Shuffle transition
- Full source code available
Demo| Download
![Scattered Polaroids Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z68jJPzpacQ/VYYGI1aylPI/AAAAAAAAFw8/Otq0vjpIClw/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
A-Slider
- Responsive slider
- Audio support
- CSS3 transitions (fade)
- Set audio on each slide
- Slide any content, not just images
- No dependencies except jQuery;
- Works well with Twitter Bootstrap if required
Demo| Download
![a-slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S43QMDvJKtQ/VYYGJr6GhbI/AAAAAAAAFxE/rDxIxk_R5Eo/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
HiSlider – HTML5, jQuery & WordPress Image Slider Gallery
Hi Slider introduced a free jQuery slider plugin for personal use to create fancy image sliders with fantastic image transitions.
- Responsive Slider
- No Coding for you
- Multiple Fascinating Templates & Skins
- Awesome Transition Effects
- Multiple Platforms
- Publish to Website, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
- Multi-Media:Images, YouTube Videos & Vimeo Videos
- Flexible Custom Options
- Useful Action Types
- Unlimited Output
Demo|Download
![jQuery Image Slider Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fJDhE1j5QJU/VYYGKKEmHpI/AAAAAAAAFxM/BCk0sZ9Pzkw/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Wow Slider
WOW Slider is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects (Domino,Page, Rotate, Blur, Flip, Blast, Fly, Blinds, Squares, Slices, Basic, Fade, Ken Burns, Stack,Stack vertical, Basic linear, Cube and Seven) and tons of professionally made templates. WOW Slider is packed with a point-and-click wizard to create fantastic sliders in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. Wordpress slider plugin and Joomla slider module are available also.
- Fully Responsive
- All browser, all devices support
- Touch Swipe support
- Easy wordpress setup
- Highly Customizable
- SEO Ready
Demo|Download ![HTML jquery content sliders](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TNJpXU9zi8s/VYYGKqsOK1I/AAAAAAAAFxQ/eApDsyQhnKc/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Nivo Slider – Free jQuery Plugin
The Nivo Slider is world renowned as the most beautiful and easy to use image slider on the market. There is literally no better way to make your website look totally stunning. The Nivo Slider jQuery plugin is free to download and released under the MIT license.
- Requires jQuery v1.7+
- Beautiful Transition Effects
- Simple and Flexible Setup
- Small, Semantic & Responsive
- Free to Use & Abuse
- Powerful & Simple Slider Creation
- Multiple Slider Types
- Automatic Image Cropping
Demo|Download ![nivo jquery slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-igEtskzOWbY/VYYGK-_nktI/AAAAAAAAFxY/DPFwOevrvpQ/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Simple multi-item jQuery slider + Tutorial
The idea was inspired by the Apple product slider where several little items fly in with a bouncing animation. We wanted to translate this concept to a modern-looking alternative for a minimal online store design where the items represent different categories. Categories as use-case fit quite well because of the limited nature of this type of slider.
- Responsive layout
- Minimal Design
- Fade and slide effects
Demo|Download ![minimal jquery slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8BHy9FdBEMI/VYYGLTF-nuI/AAAAAAAAFxg/4Mryf8UrzSs/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Full width jQuery image slider
A very simple 100% width slider that scales down to mobile. This slider has a 100% width layout and it is responsive. It operates with CSS transitions and the image is wrapped with an anchor. The anchor can be replaced by a division if no linking is needed. With a max-width set to 100%, the image will size down for smaller screens.
- Responsive jQuery slider
- Full width
- Minimal Design
Demo|Download ![full slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1iSXgTw3GGU/VYYGL1_dBRI/AAAAAAAAFxo/tLVOdxe-JhA/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Elastic Content Slider + Tutorial
A fluid content slider that will adjust in width and height depending on the size of its parent. This Blueprint is a simple jQuery content slider. It has a sliding area for content and a tab-like navigation at the bottom. The slider is fluid, meaning that it will adjust to the parent’s container width and height. A couple of media queries show how to minimalise the look by just leaving icons for the navigation when the screen is very small.
- Responsive Design
- Click Through
Demo|Download ![Responsive Content Slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9XPY5kjh28A/VYYGMW-ZXxI/AAAAAAAAFxw/XXL2fN4_yZg/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Free 3D Stack Slider
An experimental image slider that flips through images in 3D. Two stacks resemble image piles where images will be lifted off from and rotated to the center for viewing.
- Responsive Design
- Flip Transition
- 3D Effect
Demo|Download ![flips through images in 3D](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xv2v1CbwyJs/VYYGM0UApGI/AAAAAAAAFx4/hiCwJ4oo-dU/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Fullscreen Slit Slider with jQuery and CSS3 + Tutorial
A tutorial on how to create a fullscreen slideshow with a twist: the idea is to slice open the current slide when navigating to the next or previous one. Using jQuery and CSS animations we can create unique slide transitions for the content elements.
- Responsive Design
- Split Transition
- Full Screen slider
Demo|Download ![Fullscreen Slit Slider with jQuery and CSS3](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WPA1zdEPMSE/VYYGNToIvCI/AAAAAAAAFyA/AumVAXjUWpg/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Unislider – The super tiny jQuery Slider
No fancy effects or unnecessary markup, and it’s less than 3kb. Use any HTML in your slides, extend with CSS. You have full control. Everything to do with Unslider is hosted on GitHub.
- Cross-browser happy
- Keyboard support
- Adjusts for height
- Yep, it’s responsive
- Touch support
Demo | Download ![super-tiny jQuery slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RHKsFnSgUGk/VYYGNwjhNEI/AAAAAAAAFyI/ym69Vhz0CNI/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Minimal Responsive Slides
Simple & lightweight responsive slider plugin (in 1kb). ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slider using elements inside a container. ResponsiveSLides.js works with wide range of browsers including all IE versions from IE6 and up.
- Fully responsive
- 1kb minified and gzipped
- CSS3 transitions with JavaScript fallback
- Simple markup using unordered list
- Settings for transition and timeout durations
- Multiple slideshows supported
- Automatic and manual fade
Demo|Download ![responsive slides](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V33xnV846bs/VYYGOSCNP2I/AAAAAAAAFyU/l5PpP_Vllpw/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Camera | a free jQuery slideshow
Camera a free jQuery slideshow with many effects, transitions, adaptive layout, easy to customize, using canvas and mobile ready.
- Responsive Design
- Captions
- Add Videos
- 33 different icon colors
Demo|Download ![free jquery slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9u7gdLqFJ10/VYYGO47AAsI/AAAAAAAAFyc/39lDFAm-V0c/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
SlidesJS, a responsive slideshow jQuery plug-in
lidesJS is a responsive slideshow plug-in for jQuery (1.7.1+) with features like touch and CSS3 transitions. Give it a try above and check out the examples to help you get started adding SlidesJS to your project.
- Responsive Design
- CSS3 transitions
- Touch
- Easy setup
Demo | Download ![responsive slideshow plug-in for jQuery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nClSbFjARY8/VYYGPjGLslI/AAAAAAAAFyg/aaQ9UF0pCdw/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
bx Jquery Slider
This is a free Responsive jQuery Content Slider.
- Fully responsive – will adapt to any device
- Horizontal, vertical, and fade modes
- Slides can contain images, video, or HTML content
- Advanced touch / swipe support built-in
- Uses CSS transitions for slide animation (native hardware acceleration!)
- Full callback API and public methods
- Small file size, fully themed, simple to implement
Demo|Download
![The Responsive jQuery Content Slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1X5_2eohb5k/VYYGPwBA1hI/AAAAAAAAFyo/8b-kzxh-oTY/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
FlexSlider 2
The best responsive slider.The slider was restructured for speed, better minification, and minimizing reflows / repaints.
Demo | Download
![flexslider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VbmvLAoSA70/VYYGQZDUn0I/AAAAAAAAFy0/vwm-p2zO4H0/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Galleria – Responsive JavaScript Image Gallery
Galleria has been serving top-quality image galleries to millions of web sites during the last years. We couldn’t be happier with all the positive response we received.
- Free without restrictions
- Fullscreen View
- 100% Responsive
- No programming skills required
- iPhone, iPad & touch support
- Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube and more
- One core, multiple themes
Demo | Download
![JavaScript image gallery framework slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wTwPm9WSRKc/VYYGRByYifI/AAAAAAAAFy8/K_fwkkTYgA8/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Blueberry – A simple, fluid, responsive jQuery image slider
Introducing a jQuery image slider written specifically for responsive web design. Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.
- Minimal Design
- Responsive Layout
- Fade Slide
Demo | Download
![free jQuery image slider plugin](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TsSJd8Gz41A/VYYGR3JdQdI/AAAAAAAAFzE/x6SXlctsfbY/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
jQuery popeye 2.1
An inline lightbox alternative with slideshow.The first popeye-box uses the standard options: it floats to the left and opens to the right, its navigation and caption show on mouseover.
- Responsive Design ? Its a tiny slider
- Visible enough
- Caption Support
- Slideshow
Demo | Download
![popeye-box](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mcIJO7c99R8/VYYGSWI6DbI/AAAAAAAAFzM/ZvNKuWcTKGY/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
FractionSlider: Free jQuery parallax Slider Plugin
Check out this awesome jQuery parallax slider plugin. Animate multiple element per slide with full control in every aspect of time and animation. FractionSlider is a jQuery plugin for image/text-sliders. It allows you to animate multiple elements per slide. You can set different animation methods like fade or transitions from a certain direction.
- Slide animations & responsive
- Object animations
- Steps
- Background animations
Demo|Download
![FractionSlider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JjOs8uYupPA/VYYGTJgDqpI/AAAAAAAAFzU/iZtnQRBNIFc/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Free Responsive Image Slider + Tutorial
Today we will code a responsive image slider from the Impressionist UI. We will code it using the FlexSlider plugin for the functionality and style it using CSS3. I hope you will enjoy it and find it useful for your projects. Lets get started!
- Responsive Image Slider
- Fade Effect
- Left, right arrows
- Green buttons
Demo|Download
![Responsive Image Slider in jQuery and CSS3](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-diWcoy5irdk/VYYGT6-O2vI/AAAAAAAAFzc/vW6kS18juQ8/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Sequence – Free Responsive Slider with Advanced CSS3 Transitions
Comes with four cool themes but only modern slide is responsive as apple style and horizontal parallax slides are not fluid here.
- Three Great free Themes
- Sliding Horizontal Parallax
- Apple Style
- Minimalist Modern Slide (Responsive slider skin)
- Touch Support
- Easily Modified
- Cross Browser
Demo|Download
![Responsive minimal slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-amPnH9daAps/VYYGUcrXZaI/AAAAAAAAFzg/ljlubq-g9Lk/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Swipe – Free responsive accurate touch slider
- Responsive
- Resistant Bounds
- Scroll Prevention
- Library Agnostic
- IE7+ Compatible
Demo|Download
![most accurate touch slider](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QW2X6-PTtBE/VYYGVK-jA9I/AAAAAAAAFzo/4Z1UqUH0UDw/30-free-responsive-jquery-image-sliders.jpg?imgmax=1600)