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
A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript.
2. Horizontal Chronology Timeline – chronoline.js
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

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
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
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
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.