15 Top jQuery Scrollbar Plugins
jQuery Scrollbar plugins not only make your website look more responsive and synergistic but also adds to the beauty of all over presentation of content. It gives you the leverage of presenting the content in the manner you find most appropriate.
This post has a collection of Top 15 jQuery Scrollbar plugins that will help you to shape your content and look of website with the power of jQuery. You may opt for horizontal or vertical scrolling or even a mixture of both. All this and more in this post.
If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on jQuery Navigation, jQuery UI Resources, jQuery Content Slider Resources, and jQuery Gallery Plugins.
jQuery custom content scroller
Custom scrollbar plugin utilizing jquery UI that’s fully customizable with CSS. It features vertical/horizontal scrolling, mouse-wheel support (via Brandon Aaron jquery mouse-wheel plugin), scroll easing and adjustable scrollbar height/width.
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Rangeinput
You can design ranges to fit the overall feel of your site. Use images and even the latest CSS3 techniques if you like. Every bit of the range is skinnable.
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Tiny Scrollbar
Tiny Scrollbar can be used for scrolling content. It was built using the javascript jQuery library. Tiny scrollbar was designed to be a dynamic lightweight utility that gives webdesigners a powerfull way of enhancing a websites user interface.
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Scrollbar Paper
Scrollbar Paper does not replace browser’s default scrollbar. Instead, it covers it with a custom scrollbar, like paper on a wall: that is why it is called Scrollbar Paper. The benefit of this approach is that the way browser’s default scrollbar behaves is not modified: mouse wheel support, text selection and scrolling performance are the same as usual.
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Scrollbars
jQuery plugin. Fully themable and adjustable scrollbars. Automatically adjusts if scrollbars are not required. Fallback to regular scrollbars if JavaScript is disabled.
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jQuery quickie: Unlimited Scroll using the Twitter API
This is a great technique that could be used on loads of websites. Instead of the regular pagination, where the user has to click to see the next page, unlimited scroll automatically loads the next page when the user is at the bottom.
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ShortScroll
A jQuery UI Google Wave style scroll bar. It added functionality and style making much better than the browser default scroll bar.
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Vertical scrollbar using jquery UI slider
There’s a fundamental aspect of the way the vertical slider works which took me a little time to get my head round, and that’s that the slider as a default starts from zero at the bottom and increases upwards – which is the wrong way round for a vertical scroller, hence the need for a bit of extra calculation.
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LionBars
A free to use, lightweight jQuery plugin that makes scrollbars look like in OSX Lion.
Endless Scroll
Endless scroll (or infinite scrolling) is a popular technique among web 2.0 sites such as Google Reader and Live Image Search, where instead of paging through items using the traditional pagination technique, the page just keeps loading with new items attached to the end.
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jQuery Scroll to Top Control
If your pages are long winded, it’s a good idea to provide viewers with an easy way to quickly/ automatically scroll back to the top of the page. That’s where this script comes in. It displays a stationary control at the lower right corner of the window that when clicked on gently scrolls the page back up to the top. And instead of always being visible on the user’s screen, the script lets you specify how far down the page the user is at (in pixels) before revealing the control.
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jScrollPane
jScrollPane is a jQuery plugin which provides you with custom scrollbars which work consistently across all modern browsers. You can style the scrollbars using simple CSS and they degrade gracefully where JavaScript is disabled.
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Special scroll events for jQuery
It scrolls with the movement of mouse.
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Scrollable
The main design goals of this tool are to provide visual customization, ease of use and programmability. You can have both Horizontal and vertical scrolling.
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jQuery Scroll Follow
Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls.
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You are kinda mixing scrollbar plugins with all sort of scroll scripts :)
I am using some plugins which are similar to above.
sorry, bad link. That’s the right one: http://rocha.la/jQuery-slimScroll
Thanks for the Lions bar link. I really prefer that look over the standard scroll bar.
Hey, I’m the developer of LionBars and just for heads up, it’s still buggy and you might want to wait for the next version, which will be rewritten from the ground up and hopefully will be ready to use in production. Follow me @nikolay_dyankov for updates ;)
Looks like your link is now broken, have you stopped working on LionBars?
nice collection of plugins..Thanks for sharing…
Dear Nikolay ,
where i can found the next version of LionBars
jquery scrollbar are nice …you can also use http://manos.malihu.gr/tuts/jquery_custom_scrollbar.html
Lionbars project has been killed it could be removed from this list.
Should Appreciable Work !! thanks a lot
Execellant collection
Not at all fammiler with these ones, so good to find them out, thanks for the share.
jQuery custom content scroller is number one plugin, easy to using
Thank you for your fruitful post..
Nice collection of plugins.
Thank for sharing!
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Just what I needed at the right moment! you save me a lot of time searching.
Thanks!
i am looking for a scroll bar with pagination.
That’s handy list of scroll collection.
I tried several of these and found jQuery custom content scroller to be the best/easiest. It doesn’t require any additional markup for one thing.
These are very commendable resources. Thanks for sharing.