Learning jQuery

Parallax scrolling, creating an illusion of depth by moving web elements in different speeds while scrolling, can help offering an attractive browsing experience. JavaScript is now dominant when it comes to nested scrollbars, parallax scrollers, and even touch-based scrolling features.
For this roundup we are showcasing 20 Best jQuery Plugins for Creating Parallax Scrolling Effects, following plugins come with number of features and functions and can be integrated easily in your web sites to give a better end user experience to your visitors.

1. Enllax.js

An ultra-lightweight (~1kb) and super easy to use plugin for applying parallax scrolling effect to any scrolling element.

2. jQuery zLayers Parallax Plugin

zLayers is a jQuery parallax plugin that allows you to orientate an element based on the position of your mouse to the page’s window, or element’s parent. zLayer is perfect for interactive illustrations and rich user experience through creative methods through a parallax effect.

3. qpScroll

qpScroll is a jQuery plugin that creates a parallax background for any page or div. It is simple to setup. It can be added to any existing page without the need to change the HTML mark up.

4. Skrollr

Skrollr is a stand-alone parallax scrolling javascript library for mobile (Android + iOS) and desktop.

5. Parallax Scroll

Parallax-Scroll is a jQuery plugin to create elements with background images that behaves as if their background-attachment property is between scroll and fixed, similar to the parallax scrolling effect you see on Spotify.

6. SParallax

SParallax is a responsive Jquery plugin that allows you to bind element transitions to the native vertical scroll bar of any web browser, thus allowing you to create parallax effects that are only limited by your imagination.

7. Parallax.js

Parallax.js is a lightweight solution for creating parallax effects. Besides mouse/cursor support, it works on mobile and tablet (where gyroscope or motion detection hardware is available) too. It comes with multiple options for customizing the effect where they can be set inline using “data attributes” or in JavaScript.

8. StarScroll

Starscroll is a jQuery plugin that adds a fullscreen starfield, generated in canvas, controlled by css to any div. The parallax responds when user scrolls (no matter how big your content), or when is set to animate.

9. Parallax Slider

Parallax Slider incorporates a parallax scrolling effect where each slide and its contents glide into view at different speeds, creating a captivating visual experience. Visual intrigue aside, however, Parallax Slider is an easy to customize, responsive slider that can adapt to different screen and device sizes, by supporting a percentage value as its width.

10. Scroll Content Presenter

It is an extension that allows you to create an unique and beautiful style of navigation , showing the contents of your site through animations and colors to engage your visitors. Scroll Content Presenter builds the navigation menu for you based on the structure of your HTML.

11. Scroll Magic

ScrollMagic is a jQuery plugin which essentially lets you use the scrollbar like a progress bar. It’s the plugin for you, if you want to start an animation at a specific scroll position, synchronize an animation to the scrollbar movement, pin an element at a specific scroll position (sticky elements).

12. Parallax Image Scroll

jQuery and amd compatible plugin to create a parallax effect with images. Heavily inspired by the spotify.com website. The plugin is really simple to use with some options to tweek.

13. Parallaxify

Parallaxify is a jQuery plugin that adds parallax effects to elements and backgrounds based on gyroscope sensor (device orientation) data or mouse movement.

14. Jarralax

Jarallax is a feature-rich JavaScript library for easily creating and customizing parallax scrolling effects. The library enables us to manipulate CSS using keyframes and it supports custom controllers. These controllers, compared to time-based animations, allows us to decide the events that animations will react to (scrolling, mouse gestures, etc.).

15. jInvertScroll

jInvertScroll is a jQuery plugin that manipulates the default scrolling behavior and forces a horizontal scroll. The plugin is lightweight (1kb) and works with almost no setup. Adding a specific class to wrapper elements and calling a JS function is enough.

16. Stellar.js

Stellar.js is a jQuery plugin that provides parallax scrolling effects to any scrolling element. The first step is to run .stellar() against the element.

17. Destaque

Destaque is a simple slideshow plugin with built-in parallax effect.

18. Scrolly

Scrolly is a super simple and easy to use parallax plugin for jQuery.

19. SuperScrollrama

SuperScrollorama is a jQuery plugin for creating eye-candy effects in parallel to the scrolling of web pages. By dividing the content into blocks, it simply lets us to animate elements on the page (when a block is reached) based on the browser window’s scroll position.

20. freshD

freshD – The jQuery 3D Parallax Plugin magically animates your objects in a dynamic created 3D world. For those of you who don’t know what Parallax is, the best way to describe it is the way objects in the background tend to move less than objects closer to the viewer, the most front objects also transform themselves to the viewer’s point of view.