10 Awesome jQuery Parallax Plugins
The parallax scrolling effect allows you to move the background content (i.e. an image) at a different speed than the foreground content while scrolling. It is very trendy these days to use parallax effect. In this post, we’ve compiled a list of 10 awesome jQuery parallax plugins, allowing you to easily implement parallax effects on images or text. These easy to use and lightweight plugins support horizontal and vertical movement for parallax scrolling. Enjoy!
1. Parallaxify
Parallaxify is a jQuery plugin that adds parallax effects to elements and backgrounds triggered by gyroscope sensor data (device orientation) or mouse movement. Parallaxify exposes a variety of options that let you influence how element positioning is achieved, configure filtering of sensor data, configure the movement algorithm, and change general plugin settings. In order to add a parallax effect to any element you can run .parallaxify() on the wrapper of an element or run it globally on 'window'.
2. Fallings
Fallings is a lightweight jQuery parallax effect plugin that focuses on manipulating absolute elements positions based on the window.scrollTop() property. The parallax effect can be checked while scrolling up/down in the browser window.
3. Paroller.js
Paroller.js is an easy to use, mobile ready, lightweight jQuery plugin that enables parallax scrolling effects. You can use it on background elements or on any other element. Scrolling elements can move vertically or horizontally.
4. Parally
Parally is a small, simple, flexible jQuery parallax scrolling plugin which can be applied to background images or any other DOM elements. You can also pass multiple configuration parameters to controls the parallax effect.
5. Parallax.js
Parallax.js is a jQuery parallax plugin that helps you create Spotify-like parallax scrolling effect on your web page. Parallax.js will create a fixed-position element for each parallax image at the start of the document's body. This mirror element will sit behind the other elements and match the position and dimensions of its target object.
Parallax ImageScroll is a simple and easy jQuery plugin for creating image parallax effects while scrolling the page, inspired by spotify.com. The plugin is really simple to use with several options for tweaking. It makes use of css3 transform for animation where supported and falls back to top and left positioning for ancient browsers.
jInvertScroll is a lightweight plugin for jQuery that allows you to move horizontally with a parallax effect while scrolling down. It's easy to set up and requires nearly no configuration.
8. TVParallax
TVParallax is a tiny jQuery plugin utilizing CSS3 3D transforms to implement an Apple tvOS style parallax effect on a given element that interacts with mouse movement.
9. Parallaxator
Parallaxator is a jQuery-based parallax plugin. It's simple, and amazingly easy to use. It allows you to implement parallax effects with any html elements including text and images.
10. Paralaxbg.js
Paralaxbg.js is a jQuery script for creating background parallax effects which make background images move slower than foreground content while scrolling up or down.
Conclusion
To conclude, these jQuery parallax plugins can be used to apply the parallax scrolling effect on any HTML element like text or images and also supports horizontal and vertical scrolling. These plugins are easy to integrate and only require that you download their library, include attribution, and make a call to the library from your code. These plugins are pretty lightweight and offer great customization to modify the default implementation.
