jQuery Countdown

jQuery Countdown can work with any time format you want, and can additionally count-up to an event.

The plugin supports various must-have features for every countdown script and is one of the most easy to configure plugins in this category.

There are lots of customization options available for jQuery Countdown, all detailed and thoroughly described in the plugin's documentation files.

Features:

• Control over which time components are shown
• Built-in expanded or compact formats
• Ability to use a personal countdown layout
• Ability to count up instead of down
• Ability to pause/resume the timer
• Display personalized HTML description
• Automatic display of a message on time expiration
• Can redirect user to another page on time expiration
• Synchronizes with the server time
• Localization support
• Timezones support
• Lots of callback functions

What is new in this release:

• Corrected resetting of labels
• Added Faroese and Icelandic localisations
• Corrected Croatian localisation

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• Updated underlying plugin framework
• Changed regional to regionalOptions
• Added toggle and toggleLap commands
• Added padZeroes option
• Safeguarded performance access
• Removed br from standard layout and style with CSS instead

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• Corrected internal target tracking
• Corrected for IE10/Chrome high resolution timer
• Added Albanian, Gujarati, and Uzbek localizations

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• Added $.noRequestAnimationFrame to force use of setInterval
• Added digits option to localizations to allow for alternate digit characters
• Changed change command to option
• Changed settings command to option
• Updated underlying plugin framework
• Added Armenian, Kannada and Welsh localizations
• Corrected Portuguese/Brazilian and Ukrainian localizations
• Added Arabic digits to Arabic localization

What is new in version 1.5.11:

• Correct requestAnimationFrame usage for IE.

What is new in version 1.5.10:

• Use requestAnimationFrame when available.
• Added Estonian localization.

What is new in version 1.5.9:

• Added Bengali/Bangla, Croatian, Greek, Malaysian, Serbian/Cyrillic, Serbian/Latin, Slovenian and Vietnamese localizations.
• Corrected Russian localization.

What is new in version 1.5.8:

• Added significant to restrict number of period amounts shown
• Added whichLabels for greater control over singular/plural forms of labels
• Corrected period calculation for count-ups involving years/months
• Added Bulgarian localization

What is new in version 1.5.6:

• Allowed countdown to count up from zero.
• Corrected error when counting up into an optional time component.
• Added periodsToSeconds function.
• Added Burmese, Finnish, Galician, Latvian, and Lithuanian localizations.

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side
• jQuery 1.4 or higher