php and jquery image selector

I was on flic开发者_运维技巧kr and I saw this function whereby you can scroll photos (thumbnail) without loading the page. It's probably using jQuery or json but does anyone know whats the proper name for this kind of function or is there any available libraries? I've uploaded a screenshot..

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This looks like a Carousel plugin... There's lots of them

I like this one: Cloud Carousel

And this: jCarousel

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Use this JQuery plug in .. its great Image slider

and easy to integrate.

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i think this is just simple ul li combination and the images

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You could either use pre-built libraries like the ones mentioned in other answers, or build from scratch.

Generally, these kind of widgets use an AJAX approach, where images are loaded separately from the page, and the animation stuff is achieved using a mixture of JS and CSS.