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24 alternatives to Refcard #007 jQuery Selectors

The Core jQuery Reference

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Refcard #007 jQuery Selectors launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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jQuery Cards▲264
Curated repository of over 1000 quality jQuery plugins
2016 · jquerycards.com · its alternatives →
2
jquer.in▲68
A jQuery plugin a day
2014 · its alternatives →
3
JavaScript & jQuery▲68
A beautiful and simple instructional book.
2014 · its alternatives →
4
CODY▲136
Free library of HTML, CSS, & JS nuggets
2014 · codyhouse.co · its alternatives →
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Selector Forge▲133
Hi HN, I'm Ahmad from the Intuned (https://intunedhq.com) team. Today, we're releasing and open-sourcing Selector Forge (https://selectorforge.ai/), a browser extension that generates reliable CSS/XPath selectors using AI. You can use it to create a selector for a single element or for an array of elements. The selectors it creates are meant to be "semantic" and more resilient to page changes than what Chrome DevTool’s “Copy Selector” (and other similar extensions) give you. Those tend to hand you something brittle like `#top > div.w-100.ph0-l.ph3.ph4-m > h1 >…
Jun 2026 · selectorforge.ai · its alternatives →
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Tiny jQuery alternative with inline Locality of Behavior▲30
🗿 Mini jQuery alternative. Dependency-free animations. Locality of Behavior. Use one element or arrays transparently. Pairs with htmx. Vanilla querySelector() but better! - gnat/surreal
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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jQuery 3.0▲7
jQuery 3.0
2016 · blog.jquery.com · its alternatives →
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Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative▲132
:umbrella: Lightweight javascript library for DOM manipulation and events
2018 · umbrellajs.com · its alternatives →
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SelectorsHub▲73
Go full page in one click: Full Page Screenshot with url
2021 · selectorshub.com · its alternatives →
10
AniJS▲87
UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English
2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →
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&what;▲75
interactive reference of 14,500 HTML character entities
2015 · amp-what.com · its alternatives →
12
JavaScripting▲74
Ranking of top JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and plugins
2015 · its alternatives →
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SelectorGadget▲14
2015 · selectorgadget.com · its alternatives →
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Inspect Element▲64
Weekly strategies for web designers
2014 · inspectelement.com · its alternatives →
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Selector▲144
Make your websites editable without fiddling code
2015 · selector.io · its alternatives →
16
jQuery Aim▲103
Guesses which element user is going to be hovered/clicked
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Find Guidelines▲174
A repository of products' design guidelines
2014 · findguidelin.es · its alternatives →
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Haquery – jQuery for Haskell▲47
jQuery for Haskell. Contribute to crufter/haquery development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TwentyTwenty▲93
JQuery visual diff tool
2015 · zurb.com · its alternatives →
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Jalendar 2▲6
jquery, plugin
2017 · bqra.github.io · its alternatives →
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Immutable.js▲79
Immutable persistent data collections for javascript
2014 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →
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IXD Checklist▲63
Interaction Design Checklist
2014 · its alternatives →
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JSPretty▲78
Javascript Beautifier and Formatter
2014 · cleancss.com · its alternatives →
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Select2▲6
The jQuery replacement for select boxes
2016 · select2.github.io · its alternatives →

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