7 Best Timeline Generators In JavaScript & CSS (2023 Update)

A timeline is a type of chronology chart that displays a list of events labeled with dates in chronological order.

It is typically used to tell a story, show milestones/history, or describe events relative to each other.

In this post, I’m happy to share with you the 7 best Vanilla JavaScript- or Pure CSS-driven libraries that help you create historic timelines based on dates. I hope you like it.

Last Updated: Feb 01, 2023

1. TimelineJS3

TimelineJS3

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A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript.


2. Horizontal Chronology Timeline – chronoline.js

Horizontal Chronology Timeline - chronoline.js

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A javascript Timeline library that make it easy to create a chronology timeline out of events on a horizontal timescale.


3. Parallel Timelines Chart With JavaScript And SVG

Parallel Timelines Chart With JavaScript And SVG

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A JavaScript & SVG based charting library to create a Gantt Chart style segmented timelines for representing the state of time-series over time.


4. Responsive Vertical Timeline In Pure CSS

Responsive Vertical Timeline In Pure CSS

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A simple, plain, responsive, vertical timeline built with CSS and HTML unordered list.


5. https://github.com/lo-th/neo

6. Mobile First Vertical Timeline In JavaScript

Mobile First Vertical Timeline In JavaScript

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A responsive, mobile-first, SEO-friendly, Material Design styled timeline to present your events, tasks, milestone, stories, and much more.


7. Responsive Horizontal/Vertical Timeline In Vanilla JavaScript – timeline.js

Responsive Horizontal/Vertical Timeline In Vanilla JavaScript – timeline.js

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A vanilla JavaScript plugin to render a responsive, horizontal/vertical timeline component from plain HTML.


More Resources:

See our Timeline section for more JavaScript & CSS timeline libraries. If you’re a jQuery user, see this article: 10 Best Timeline Components In jQuery And Pure JS/CSS.

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