5 jQuery Responsive Fullscreen Background Image Plugins

By Sam Deering

With an emergence of websites now showing off their images as fullscreen backgrounds, I have compiled a quick list of what I think are the 5 best jQuery Responsive Fullscreen Background Image Plugins. Create some beautiful responsive backgrounds, slideshows, transitions and more. I’ve included a link to a CSS only background image if you don’t need jQuery. Enjoy! :)

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5 jQuery Background Video plugins

1. Vegas Background jQuery Plugin

Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages. You can even create amazing Slideshows.s

Source Demo

2. Backstretch

A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element

Source + Demo

3. Supersized jQuery Plugin

Full screen background slideshow plugin for jQuery

Source Demo

4. jQuery tubular

Tubular is a jQuery plugin that lets you set a YouTube video as your page background. Just attach it to your page wrapper element, set some options, and you’re on your way.

Source +Demo

5. mb.jquery

A good way to have extra content or a navigation tool in your page.

Source Demo

CSS Only Techniques

There are also a CSS only techniques if you want courtesy of my good ole Chris Source Demo.

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Sam Deering

Sam Deering is a Front-end Web Developer who specialises in JavaScript & jQuery. Sam is driven and passionate about sharing his knowledge to educate others.