jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. A few days ago we post about 10+ useful jQuery select box and dropdown plugins. Today I have collected 11 Useful jQuery File Upload Plugins which are cool and easy to integrate. I hope you will like these jquery upload plugins.
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Here are 11 Useful jQuery File Upload Plugins
Plupload
This jquery plugin allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.
jQuery HTML5 Uploader
jQuery HTML5 Uploader is a lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to quickly add an upload system a-la-Gmail into your web app. You only need to create a dropbox element (i.e. a div) and jQuery HTML5 Uploader will do the rest. Then you can drag & drop one or more files on the element and the files will be uploaded.
AjaxFileUpload
This AjaxFileUpload Plugin is a hacked version of Ajaxupload plugin created by yvind Saltvik, which is really good enought for normal use. Its idea is to create a iframe and submit the specified form to it for further processing. 
jQuery DROPAREA
jquery droparea is a HTML5 drag and drop image/file upload jQuery plug-in and a php script for server-side.
Uploadify
Uploadify™ is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily add multiple file upload functionality to your website. Two distinct versions (HTML5 and Flash) allow you the flexiblity to choose the right implementation for your site and fallback methods make it degrade gracefully.
jQuery File Upload
File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bars and preview images for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads and client-side image resizing. Works with any server-side platform (PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, Go etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.
jQuery uploadprogress
This jquery plugin to augment a standard file upload form with transparent background upload and add uploadprogress meter to keep client informed of progress.
JqUploader
jqUploader is a jquery plugin that substitutes html file input fields with a flash-based file upload widget, allowing to display a progressbar and percentage. It is designed to take most of its customization from the html code of your form directly – so you don’t have to do things twice .
Code Samples
There is no special coding required to handle file uploads. File input elements are automatically detected and processed for you.
Ajax Upload
Ajax Upload is a file upload script with progress-bar, drag-and-drop. This plugin uses XHR for uploading multiple files with progress-bar in FF3.6+, Safari4+, Chrome and falls back to hidden iframe based upload in other browsers, providing good user experience everywhere.
SWFUpload jQuery Plugin
A jQuery plugin that makes working with SWFUpload even easier.
