10 Best Typewriter Typing Animations In JavaScript (2026 Update)
Looking for Typewriter text effect? Paragraph animated with realistic typing action, it's a great way to display quotes, announcements and headlines!
Use these 10 Best Typing Animation libraries implemented in jQuery, Vanilla JavaScript, or Pure CSS to simulate typewriter-like text typing and deleting effects for your headlines, titles, and any import text messages.
Simply add few lines of code and your typography will look alive on the webpages. You can also change color and behavior to fit your needs.
Originally Published Dec 30 2017, updated Jan 29 2026
Table of contents:
jQuery Text Typing Plugins:
Animate Typing & Deleting Of Text - animateTyping.js
An easy-to-use jQuery plugin to simulates the typewriter effect that animate the typing and deleting of text within a container element.
Terminal-like Text Typing Effect with jQuery - Teletype
A very small jQuery plugin which allows you to output text with cool typing effects as you've seen in a terminal console.
Configurable Text Typing Effect - jQuery Typewriter.js
A super tiny jQuery text animation plugin that applies a configurable human keyboard typing effect to any text you specify.
Simulating Typing, Deleting And Selecting Text With jQuery - typewrite
A tiny jQuery typing animation plugin which allows to simulate someone typing, deleting and selecting given words defined in the JavaScript.
Terminal-style Text Typing Plugin For jQuery - Typewriter
A lightweight jQuery typewriting plugin which allows you to apply human typing/deleting effects on an array of text, with prefix and blinking cursor support. Suitable for creating a text rotator that allows to rotator through your text with typing/deleting effects.
Vanilla JS Text Typing Animations:
ChatGPT-style Text Typing Effect – ChatGPT Typewriter
The ChatGPT Typewriter script simulates the text typing effect you see on ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/).
JavaScript Plugin For Customizable Terminal Text Effect - TypeIt
Just another typewriter-style text animation plugin that simulates someone typing and deleting over an array of words.
Terminal Text Typing Effect In JavaScript - Typed.js
Yet another Vanilla JavaScript plugin for emulating the terminal typing effect that enables you to print html or plain text as if it's being typed on the screen.
Terminal-style Text Typing Animation – TypeWriting.js
A standalone JavaScript library for creating terminal-style animated text typing effect with a blinking cursor.
Classic Terminal Typing Effect In JavaScript – Console Typer
A JavaScript library to create a configurable typing animation for paragraphs, simulating the experience of typing in a command line interface.
Bonus: Pure CSS Text Typing Animation:
Pure CSS Text Typing Animation
Just another pure CSS implementation of the text typing animation using pseudo elements and CSS3 animations. Also can be used as a text rotator with a character typing effect.
Conclusion:
Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Text Typing Effects on the web & mobile? See jQuery Text Typing and JavaScript/CSS Text Animation sections for more details.
