10 Best Sticky Sidebar Plugins In JavaScript (2024 Update)

When you are running a website or blog, you might need to make a sidebar widget (like featured content, big sales, subscription form, social like box, and ads) stick to the side of your page.

In most cases, you can use CSS position: fixed or position: sticky property to make the whole sidebar stick to the side when the users scroll down or up the webpage:

Sticky Sidebar With Pure CSS:

See the Pen Sticky Sidebar With Pure CSS by iqq800 (@iqq800) on CodePen.

However, when you only need a block element in the sidebar to be fixed to the side of your page, the situation is a bit more complicated.

You might need JavaScript to keep track of the scroll event and fix a given element to the top while keeping the element stay within the sidebar until it reaches the bottom of the page.

This is why I decide to write this blog post and list here the 10 Best jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript solutions to help beginners quickly implement a sticky sidebar on the webpage.

Originally Published Aug 19 2020, updated Mar 01 2024

10 Best Sticky Sidebar Plugins:

Table of contents:

• jQuery Sticky Sidebar Plugins
• Vanilla JS Sticky Sidebar Plugins

Best jQuery Sticky Sidebar Plugins

jQuery Plugin For Intelligent Sticky Sidebars - Theia Sticky Sidebar

The Theia Sticky Sidebar jQuery plugin allows to make your sidebar widgets be fixed on the top (or bottom) when you scroll past them.

[Demo] [Download]

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Creating A Fixed Position Sidebar With jQuery Sticky Sidebar Plugin

A lightweight and super simple jQuery plugin for creating a sticky sidebar that always follows the user on page scroll and auto stops when reaching the bottom.

[Demo] [Download]

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Fix Element Within Parent Container On Scroll - sticky.jquery.js

A small jQuery plugin for making an element always be fixed within its parent container when scrolling down.

[Demo] [Download]

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Highly Customizable jQuery Sticky Element Plugin - hc-sticky

A simple, responsive, cross-browser jQuery & Vanilla JS plugin which makes any block elements (e.g. navigation menu, sidebar) floating / fixed when scrolling, with lots of customization options and API.

[Demo] [Download]

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jQuery Plugin To Fix DOM Elements On The Page - Zebra_Pin

An easy-to-use jQuery plugin which makes any DOM elements 'sticky' within the document or a specified container. Great for sticky header navigation, sidebar, social share buttons and more.

[Demo] [Download]

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Best Vanilla JS Sticky Sidebar Plugins

High Performance Sticky Sidebar In Pure JavaScript

This is the vanilla JavaScript version of the sticky-sidebar plugin which provides the smart, high-performance sticky sidebars for your cross-browser websites.

[Demo] [Download]

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Fast And Flexible Sticky Block JavaScript Library – Vanilla-Sticky

A dependency-free Vanilla JavaScript sticky library that makes any blocks (e.g. sidebars) stick to the top (or bottom) while scrolling.

[Demo] [Download]

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Cross-browser Sticky Element Plugin With Pure JavaScript – HC-Sticky

JavaScript library that makes any element on your page visible while you scroll.

[Demo] [Download]

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Small Sticky Sidebar In Vanilla JavaScript – FloatSidebar.js

A small vanilla JavaScript plugin used to create a floating sidebar that is sticky relative to any specific element on page scroll.

[Demo] [Download]

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Make Multiple Elements Sticky When User Scrolls – Stuck.js

A small JavaScript plugin that has the ability to make multiple stacked and sticky on page scroll.

[Demo] [Download]

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More Resources:

Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create sticky sidebars on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Sticky and JavaScript Sticky sections.

Related Resources:

• 10 Best Sticky Header Navigation Systems In JavaScript
• 10 Best JavaScript Plugins For Sticky Table Header