70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility.
Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image cropping, slideshows, tool tips, sliders and tables are being developed that use nifty JavaScript and AJAX scripts.
When using these, developers have to carefully consider many subtle techniques to help users get things done. In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on.
jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste gets its due.
1. Calendars and Timelines: Examples and Demos
Timeframe
A click-and-drag timeframe, with a function for defining ranges. A better calendar. Check out the demo here.
Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
Similar to the iPhone Calendar application, with event description that shows up on mouse hover. The trickiest part is making your images seamless and using a single image for all the graphics whenever possible to decrease download time. Check out the demo here.
Dateslider
This element enables you to pick dates with a simple slider bar. By dragging the bar over the timeline, the dates change instantly. And when the user decides to manually change dates, the bar is automatically adjusted to the corresponding dates. Check out the demo here.
Elegant animated weekly timeline
This tutorial explains how to design an elegant and animated weekly timeline, with daily annotations, that you can customize and reuse quickly in your Web projects. Check out the demo here.
Unobtrusive datePicker widget
This unobtrusive datePicker (calendar), which is accessible using the keyboard, requires no embedded JavaScript blocks, uses no pop-up windows and is suitable for use within documents served as application/XHTML+XML. Check out the demo here.
Date Picker
Date Picker jQuery plug-in allows users to select a date or range of dates easily. It includes a lot of options: multiple calendars; single, multiple and range selection; marking of special, weekend and special dates; an easy-to-customize look via CSS; custom day to start the week, a fit with the viewport.
2. Navigation Examples and Demos
auto-scrolling page navigation
Learn how to create auto-scrolling page navigation using script.aculo.us. Check out the demo here.
Creating a “filterable” portfolio with jQuery
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make “filtering by category” a little more interesting with just a bit of jQuery.
Create a simple, powerful product highlighter with MooTools
Learn how to create a flexible tool to highlight your website products and services using the MooTools JavaScript framework. Check out the demo here.
Ext Accordion
The Accordion widget and its InfoPanel are components that use the Ext JS Library. It can be used for page navigation, tool windows, hide-able details, log-in forms, options dialogs, sticky notes and more.
jQuery ListNav Plug-In
This jQuery plug-in provides an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any <ul> or <ol> list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the letters A through Z. Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items starting with that letter. Hovering over a letter (optionally) shows a count above the letter, indicating how many items are contained in that list. Check out the demo here.
3. Tool Tip Examples and Demos
Duplicate the jQuery home page tool tips using MooTools
The jQuery home page has a pretty suave tool tip-like effect, as seen above. Here’s how to accomplish the same effect using MooTools.
Prototip
Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tool tips using the Prototype JavaScript framework. You can easily customize it, control the tool tip position and get configurable rounded corners (with no PNG images required).
Simpletip
Simpletip is a plug-in for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tool tips with ease for any element on the page using the power of jQuery’s selectors and event management. The tool tips can be static, dynamic or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects.
Coda pop-up bubbles
Re-create Coda’s ‘puff’ pop-up bubbles, shown when you mouse over a downloadable image.
4. Menu Examples and Demos
Smooth animated menu with jQuery
Nice jQuery menu with a smooth transition animation effect. Check out the demo here.
Fading Menu – Replacing Content
The example page below has three menu items for three content areas: “Home,” “About” and “Contact.” When a menu item is selected, its menu graphic is shown at full opacity and its corresponding content area is shown, while the other menu items are faded and their content areas hidden. With jQuery, you can fade in the menu item being clicked, fade out all other menu items, display the corresponding content area and hide all other content areas. Check out the demo here.
jQuery Context Menu plug-in
jQuery Context Menu is a context menu plug-in for jQuery. It is designed to make implementing context menu functionality easy, and it requires minimal effort to configure. Check out the demo here.
e24TabMenu – AJAX drop-down tab menu
e24TabMenu is a plug-in written for script.aculo.us. It is a tab menu that expands and collapses smoothly. Check out the demo here.
5. Slider Examples and Demos
MooTools Slider with two knobs
This is the MooTools Slider with two knobs (i.e. a double-pinned slider), with range indicator. Check out the demo here.
MooTools CSS-styled scroll bar
A small piece of JavaScript that creates a CSS-styled scroll bar from the MooTools “slider” class. Check out the demo here.
Ultra-versatile slider for websites
A simple step-by-step tutorial for implementing an ultra-versatile slider with horizontal scrolling and animated effects using MooTools. Check out the demo here.
A better Pagination
A little script that can turn ugly-looking pagination numbers into a nice-looking slider using MooTools. Check out the demo here.
6. Slideshow Examples and Demos
noobSlide
Another slider plug-in created using MooTools.
Easy Slider
Easy Slider enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. Features include: auto-slide, continuous sliding, “Go to first” and “Go to last” buttons, hiding controls, optional wrapping markup for control buttons, vertical sliding, multiple sliders on one page. Check out the demo here.
Supersized – full-screen background/slideshow jQuery plug-in
Supersized is a jQuery plug-in that automatically resizes (background) images to the size of the browser and runs them as a slideshow. It is lightweight and plays nice with all browsers. Check out the demo here.
Animated JavaScript slideshow
New features for this dynamic JavaScript slideshow include description support, link support, no naming restrictions, portrait image support, graceful degradation and active thumbnail status. Check out the demo here.
Moving Boxes
A jQuery slider with buttons to change panels, and the panels zoom in and out. Check out the demo here.
Prototype Carousel with script.aculo.us
A Prototype-based carousel that allows for n-item paging. Items within the carousel can be extracted from the HTML itself and so can be indexed by search engines. It also allows for vertical, horizontal and grouped paging. Check out the demo here.
7. Image Cropping Examples and Demos
UvumiTools Crop
This simple tool gives your users the ability to create a selection area that can be used to crop an image live on your website. You can set a minimum size for the selection, real-time preview, support for HTML resizing, on and off toggles, CSS styling and more.
Kroppr
Unobtrusive script that allows users to rotate, resize and crop your images, with minor changes to your website.
Jcrop
Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image-cropping functionality to your Web application. It combines the ease of use of a typical jQuery plug-in with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.
8. Image Previewing Examples and Demos
imgPreview
The imgPreview plug-in allows users to preview an image before clicking it and preloads the image so that when a user does click it there is no waiting time. The image preview displays in a tool tip-like box on hover. Check out the demo here.
FancyZoom meets Prototype
Orderedlist rewrote FancyZoom in Prototype with some small changes. It now uses Apple’s rounded corners and supports pretty much any HTML you can throw in a <div> (images, text, Flash, etc.). It was built using Prototype and script.aculo.us; AJAX was not used, so it now works with any HTML already included on the page. Check out the demo here.
Dojo Zoomer
A fully featured demo showing the power of the Dojo toolkit. The markup is valid, with two external “script” tags that load progressive enhancements to an otherwise plain list of anchors and thumbnails. Check out the demo here.
9. File Upload Examples and Demos
Multiple file uploader
Allows you to create a form in which users can upload more than one file using MooTools. Check out the demo here.
Fancy Upload
FancyUpload is a file-input replacement tool that features an unobtrusive multiple-file selection menu and queued upload, with an animated progress bar. It is easy to set up, server-independent and completely styleable via CSS and XHTML. It uses MooTools, so it works in all modern browsers. Check out the demo here.
Extension:UploadForm
The Extension:UploadForm is an Ext.form.BasicForm extension that allows you to easily upload multiple files to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded to the server. Check out the demo here.
10. Auto-Complete Examples and Demos
AutoComplete Control
A stand-alone widget for putting an auto-complete feature on your website. Check out the demo here.
AutoComplete Control
Create a Google Suggest-style filter with AutoComplete Control. Check out the demo here.
Autocomplete
Autocomplete is an input field that enables users to quickly find and select a value, leveraging searching and filtering. Check out the demo here.
Proto! Textbox list meets auto-completion
11. Lightbox Examples and Demos
Lightview
Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website. Designed to complement your content, it has the following features: smart image preloading, customization without CSS, adjustable rounded corners, no PNG required, resizing to always fit the screen and one-click slideshow.
Sexy LightBox 2
SexyLightBox is a more lightweight clone of the classic Lightbox. It supports all kinds of images and different sizes. Large images are automatically resized to fit the browser.
FancyBox
A jQuery Lightbox clone with some great features: automatic resizing to fit large images in the window; a nice drop shadow under zoomed items; grouping of related items with navigation; inline and iframe content displays; customization through settings and CSS.
LightWindow
A Lightbox clone that renders to many media formats correctly, with some nice animation effects.
12. Form Examples and Demos
FancyForm
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox-replacement script that provides ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It’s accessible, easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supported browsers.
Changing form input styles on focus with jQuery
This tutorial will help spice up your form with CSS classes and default values that change according to which form item is selected. All with just a splash of jQuery. Check out the demo here.
Form.Check
FormCheck is a MooTools class that allows you to validate a form by performing different tests before submission. Check out the demo here.
fValidator
fValidator is a free, open-source and unobtrusive JavaScript tool for handling form validation easily.
Using input values as hints
Give users hints on what to input in textfields. Each field auto-clears when the user clicks or tabs to it. If nothing is entered, the hint reappears once the user moves away.
Custom Form Elements
This script enhances form elements including checkboxes, radio buttons, file upload, textfield, textarea, images and the select, submit and reset buttons. Check out the demo here.
13. Table Examples and Demos
TableGear
Built in MooTools, TableGear gets your data onto a Web page. It handles submitted data both from AJAX calls and a standard post, and it returns data to the application. Check out the demo here.
JavaScript table sorter
This JavaScript table-sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7 KB. It includes alternate-row formatting, header-class toggling, auto-data-type recognition and selective column sorting. It can currently sort strings, numbers and currencies. Check out the demo here.
DrasticGrid
DrasticGrid is an AJAX-based data grid with editing support. It uses MySQL as a data source and supports pagination, sorting, as well as editing, adding and removing records.
Sorttable
A good and simple way to sort data in a table with a simple click on table headers.
14. Worth Checking Out: Examples and Demos
typeface.js
Instead of using images or Flash to show your website’s text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and just write in plain HTML and CSS, as if your visitors had the font installed locally.
Starbox
Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on the Prototype JavaScript framework. For some extra effects, you can add script.aculo.us as well.
jQuery alert dialogs
This jQuery plug-in aims to replace the basic functionality of the standard JavaScript alert(), confirm() and prompt() functions. Check out the demo here.
Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash
This map was made to be as engaging as possible by using smooth animations and crisp graphics. Check out the final map here.
jQuery Fade In.Fade Out
This effect fades an element to 30% upon page load, then brings it to full opacity when hovered over. The effect can be assigned to virtually anything on a website, whether an image, text, link or even a div. Check out the demo here.
Opacity change using script.aculo.us
This tutorial explains how to use script.aculo.us to implement a nice “change opacity” effect for a layer and its contents.
Morph effect on mouseenter/mouseleave
In this tutorial, you’ll see how to add some amazing effects to an unordered list on mouseover with the element Method: morph and how to make a whole list item region clickable with Mootools 1.2. The goal is to turn a boring unordered list into something fun to click on. Check out the demo here.
Editable
This is a customizable, editable jQuery plug-in. Currently, it can convert any tag (span, div, p, etc.) to text input, password, textarea or drop-down list. You can easily extend it by adding your own input type using the “editableFactory” object.
15. AJAX Examples and Demos
AJAX username availability checker using MooTools
Why make users submit forms when you can use AJAX to let them know right away if their chosen usernames are available? Here’s how to implement a username availability checker using MooTools 1.2. Check out the demo here.
Ajaxify
Ajaxify is a jQuery plug-in that can convert all links on a Web page into an AJAX load and submit requests. Check out the demo here.
AJAX file upload
This plug-in, for both jQuery and Prototype, allows users to easily upload multiple files without having to refresh the page. And any element can be used to open the file selection window. Check out the demo here.
AJAX page loads using MooTools Fx.Explode
A nice MooTools effect: click on any Fx.Explode element, and it “explodes” off the screen. Click it again, and it magically reappears. Check out the demo here.
Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using MooTools
Learn how to create the effect seen in WordPress, where you click to delete an article, the menu item changes to red and then disappears. Here’s how to achieve that functionality with MooTools JavaScript. Check out the demo here.
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Teo Bitca
March 8th, 2009 2:02 pm:D:D Very helpful, thank you.
hvdesigns
March 8th, 2009 2:08 pmThanks for including my tutorial. much appreciated
DKumar M.
March 8th, 2009 2:15 pmNice Tips and Techniques Noura…. Thanks for sharing.
shreksun
April 23rd, 2011 11:13 pmOMG
Elijah Grey
March 8th, 2009 2:47 pm“70 New, Useful Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and JavaScript Techniques” doesn’t quite sound right to me. You don’t need to say JavaScript twice.
Jen
March 8th, 2009 2:51 pmGreat resources as usual. Thanks!
African Boy
March 8th, 2009 2:55 pmNice resource. Though I always find it hard working with Javascript, no matter how much I try
lulsec
June 23rd, 2011 9:03 pmmay be you should stick to kfc?
SUmarov
March 8th, 2009 3:02 pmawesome.. greatly appreciated
Akai
March 8th, 2009 3:06 pmFantastic work! Really appreciate the great effort you guys make with these lists.
Jewen Soyterkijn
March 8th, 2009 3:09 pmtyvm Noura! ty Smashingmagazine! Wonderful resource once again!
I feel smashed.
m4c
March 8th, 2009 3:13 pmVery nice! Thx!
Zach Dunn
March 8th, 2009 3:13 pmGreat resource roundup! Thanks for the three includes!
Cosmin
March 8th, 2009 3:16 pmIs there no creativity left?
I’m looking back a couple of months, and I see much better AJAX techniques than now….these are just copies that bring nothing new…weak :|
justin marcus
March 8th, 2009 3:19 pmThanks for the list, but there are no new items here. This is the same stuff as usual.
Azrie Muzaffar
March 8th, 2009 3:22 pmExcellent! Love this.
Evan
March 8th, 2009 3:23 pmFor those of us who aren’t fluent in AJAX this is a great leap forward
Andy Gongea
March 8th, 2009 3:43 pmNice collection. Soon we will see articles like: 359 CSS ….
This means the web is getting bigger and innovation is still here.
Keep up the good work!
Ian
March 8th, 2009 4:02 pmThat slider pagination at the end of section 5 looks like it would be a pain to use. I’ll take some “ugly numbers” that I can easily click on, over trying to nudge that slider just enough to get to the next page.
AYANO
March 8th, 2009 4:34 pmWow. I love them! Amazing collection.
Sam Granger
March 8th, 2009 5:03 pmNew? Are you kidding me? Quite a few of these are months and months old. If not, maybe some even a year or more!
Juan Cherry
March 8th, 2009 5:32 pmNice listing!
CoLLaPSe
March 8th, 2009 5:34 pmI love it ;)
Kyle Simpson
March 8th, 2009 5:50 pmI have built a tool called ‘flXHR’ http://flxhr.flensed.com/ which is a javascript+invisible flash replacement for native XHR. It implements an identical API and so can be dropped into any existing page and code, including major JS frameworks like jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, and Ext, without any additional code changes.
But, because it uses flash invisibly, it has the ability to do cross-domain Ajax calls within the context of normal native XHR calls. The only requirement is that the target server has a server opt-in policy (“crossdomain.xml”), of which most open web-service API’s do have.
Adobe reports that 99% of computers worldwide have some recent version of flash installed, and flXHR has in it code logic to automatically, inline prompt users to upgrade if their flash plugin is out-of-date. This makes a robust solution wherein almost everyone will be able to take advantage of cross-domain Ajax in a stable, secure, and efficient way (as opposed to various other workarounds which are both insecure and inefficient).
Allen
March 8th, 2009 6:04 pmThere is some good stuff here, not all new, but still some good stuff.
Only, I wonder if you might be able to improve on these “(big number) of the (best|newest|whatever) (topic)” posts by breaking them up into a number of articles and maybe putting some more involved text around them. Or even better distilling them down to “(small number) of the (best|newest|whatever) (topic)”, and going into some detail on why they are the best.
Just a suggestion.
Adeline
March 8th, 2009 6:23 pmAnother excellent list to bookmark! :) Thanks SM
Andrew
March 8th, 2009 6:40 pmVery nice collection.
Haris
March 8th, 2009 7:54 pmThanks
Peter Richardson
March 8th, 2009 8:19 pmVery helpful, but I am still looking for a way to make reading RSS and displaying it on my page better looking and more customizable. Right now its just ugly old php/css.
Any ideas?
Ariyo
March 8th, 2009 8:49 pmSpiffy stuff. Thanks for the round up.
Abdul Akbar
March 8th, 2009 9:25 pmI think for me as a designer this is a Great resource.
I will add a link for this post on my Blog.
This post will help me for long time.
Naruki
March 8th, 2009 9:50 pmI would really prefer you had used “Tools” instead of “Techniques” in your title.
These are almost all pre-fab library functions. I was expecting to find code snippets that I could learn from or modify, based on my own needs.
The tools are interesting, but because they come from many libraries, it is totally impractical to adopt all of them. You just don’t want to mix too many libraries.
Brian Bates
March 8th, 2009 10:10 pmIncredibly helpful list. Thank you!
Noam N
March 8th, 2009 10:25 pmGreat ARTICLE!!!
Very Helpful!
TNX!!!!!
Virajkumar
March 8th, 2009 10:36 pmawesome really help ful
Pat Cavit
March 8th, 2009 10:55 pmNo YUI? Really? That’s pretty sad imo.
Hezi
March 8th, 2009 11:33 pmanother smashing article!
very very usefull.
let’s stumble! ;)
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@heziabrass
Allahverdi Sefihanov
March 8th, 2009 11:37 pmreally useful post… thanks gicks
Natrium
March 8th, 2009 11:41 pmAnother croppingtool with jQuery: http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/
onur
March 8th, 2009 11:49 pmVery useful article, thanks
Bin Gong
March 8th, 2009 11:50 pmCollection of design.
Thanks.
Srenath
March 8th, 2009 11:59 pmIts awesome Man….
Nirmal Kumar
March 8th, 2009 11:59 pmVery Good Collection :)
Helps me a lot :)
jacksuc
March 9th, 2009 12:02 amit’s too much,someone can package it?
gaurav
March 9th, 2009 12:17 amOye Delicious oye thanks a lot!
moabi
March 9th, 2009 12:22 amonce again…
so useful,
thx a lot
best magazine ever.
simon
March 9th, 2009 12:30 amas a designer this is an amazing list of examples that I could trully use in the real word. Thank you.
W3Planting
March 9th, 2009 12:40 amExcellent collection !!!
liebesiech
March 9th, 2009 1:45 amWhat should I say? Again, a very good compilation! Thanks for that!
germaine
March 9th, 2009 2:07 amMagnificent, thanks for the selection, very usefull as always
mecaniqueorange
March 9th, 2009 2:32 amlol where do you see NEW techniques ???
you are repeating yourself…
Two Socks - Graphic design and print
March 9th, 2009 2:37 amHey guys you know your work is solid, but I’ll say it anyway. Great round up!
Zeb
March 9th, 2009 2:48 amAwesome post ! Thank you
adwin wijaya
March 9th, 2009 2:58 amFor grid, I think you forgot to put this
http://www.trirand.com/blog/
jqgrid is very good :)
Astho
March 9th, 2009 3:15 amit’s cool post,…
thanks..
suman
March 9th, 2009 3:30 amhi there
nice collection and hope you will share same kind of stuff in near future.
Chris
March 9th, 2009 4:08 amAwesome article! Thanks again, I love jQuery and it’s power.
Timothy
March 9th, 2009 4:42 amI just like to write the scripts myself. Did a datepicker (calendar) pop-up the other day.
Stuart Thursby
March 9th, 2009 4:42 amAn awesome article, at just the right time. Thank you so much!
Yohan Siddique
March 9th, 2009 5:20 amoj
Kevin Thomas
March 9th, 2009 5:21 amThis was so helpful.. You guys rock…
Tom Bradshaw
March 9th, 2009 5:27 amThanks for such a comprehensive selection of examples. This type of functionality is becoming more and more important in my work as a web designer, and it is now available to all rather than just large companies or say web designer portfolios etc.
Tools like this are really changing the way users interact with a website. Could they replace flash as the tool of choice for creating interactive websites?
redrock93
March 9th, 2009 5:34 amJust… waaaaooow! I’m in love with Smashin Magazine now! Give us more like these! :)
Eduardo
March 9th, 2009 5:36 amreally incredible list! I’ll try to learn some of them.
Dave
March 9th, 2009 5:37 am“A better Pagination”
is a really sad idea – the numbers are actually useful to everyone, whereas a slider is much less accessible, much less intuitive, and much harder to use.
Roc
March 9th, 2009 6:02 amInteresting
Jasper
March 9th, 2009 6:07 amI will definitely use some of these!
Thanks for making such a nice list :-)
Chandan
March 9th, 2009 6:24 amvery helpful and nice !!!!
Thank you smashing magazine
Extraordinare
March 9th, 2009 6:26 amvery usefull! keep it up
Joakim
March 9th, 2009 6:49 amthank you for this awesome collection!
Mark
March 9th, 2009 7:11 amNoura you rock… thanks for this great list!
brian reynolds story
March 9th, 2009 7:31 amRaivo Pommer
raimo1@hot.ee
Obama Strategie
Viele Investmentexperten machen jedoch die ersten sechs Amtswochen der Regierung Obama für die Eintrübung ihres Aktienmarktausblicks verantwortlich. „Die Latte der Erwartungen lag zu hoch“, meint der unabhängige Marktstratege Doug Peta. Zu viele Menschen hätten gehofft, dass die neue Regierung „einen Zaubertrank zur Lösung unserer Probleme zur Hand haben würde“, sagt er. „Das war unrealistisch.“
Vorschläge für ein Gesetzespaket zur Ankurbelung der Wirtschaft lösten ein Kursfeuerwerk bei Infrastrukturaktien aus. So schoss etwa die Aktie des Baumaschinenherstellers Caterpillar von den Markttiefs im November 2008 bis Anfang Januar 2009 um 39 Prozent nach oben, stürzte seitdem aber wieder um 43 Prozent abwärts.
Viele Investoren hatten gehofft, dass Obama die Lösung des größten Problems der Wirtschaft und des Aktienmarktes angehen werde: die Kreditkrise. „Dies erwies sich als falsche Hoffnung“, sagt Brian Reynolds, leitender Marktstratege bei der WJB Capital Group. Nach seiner Meinung „kann die Regierung die Krise nicht aufhalten“.
banji
March 9th, 2009 7:32 amThanks a lot ! You gave me a solution for what I was looking for today ! :)
Nomark
March 9th, 2009 7:45 amThanks Noura,
I really like the jQuery confirm boxes. I’m going to use them in a current project.
David
March 9th, 2009 8:16 amWhat an absolutely fantastic list!
Do5an
March 9th, 2009 8:18 amVery nice article , this is what called web design treasure :)
Chris Robinson
March 9th, 2009 8:26 amdugg, nice roundup!
Oleg
March 9th, 2009 8:30 amThis is a great stuff! I’d also add to this list, they have lots of widgets, like autocomplete, accordion, very powerful grid, etc.
MakeDesign,NotWar
March 9th, 2009 8:31 amWow, quite a comprehensive post – there’s certainly a few of these I might use (esp the lightbox stuff and page nav. Thanks for sharing this set.
Navdeep
March 9th, 2009 8:46 amAmazing… my dev team would love this post.
Lulu
March 9th, 2009 8:53 amI LOVE JQUERY, thank-you for this!!
Lexi
March 9th, 2009 8:55 amThank you so much for this! I can see a million uses for all the information given here! : D
scasmflop
March 9th, 2009 11:24 amGreat collection
Brian Temecula
March 9th, 2009 1:41 pmIt’s too bad that Lightview isn’t cheaper or free. It looks nice, but you can’t even download a trial version.
jp
March 9th, 2009 2:04 pmthese aren’t techniques, they’re products.
Brian Temecula
March 9th, 2009 4:12 pmI was wrong about the Lightview not having a trial. It does have a trial, and it works well, but it’s just too expensive! I’ll stay with Slimbox until I get rich!
Raghu
March 9th, 2009 9:24 pmThat is truly wonderful and useful..!! Thanks a million :)
sue
March 9th, 2009 9:27 pmthank you !
Oliver
March 9th, 2009 10:03 pmwow. nice compilation.useful tools for web applications.
thank you. God bless. nice post
joris_lucius
March 10th, 2009 12:52 amThank you very much for this very usefull post!
Dave
March 10th, 2009 7:30 amThanks for the great roundup!!!
As for those of you who are complaining that the article isn’t new, isn’t this… isn’t that… Why don’t you write your own articles? Or better yet, write your own scripts and put them out there free for everyone to complain about.
This is a free article. If it doesn’t suit you, don’t read it.
pablo
March 10th, 2009 7:40 amDate Picker – jQuery plugin
doesn`t support IE6 – CSS
Kam
March 10th, 2009 7:47 amSo amazing AJAX……never thought about these control..
Alfredo San Martin
March 10th, 2009 10:21 amGreat list of techniques! I’ll definitely have to use them in some of my projects!
Roberto Justos
March 10th, 2009 11:58 ammuito PICA esse post.
a fuder!
Hezzuo
March 11th, 2009 2:00 pmThanks a lot for this great post! Keep that great work coming!
Aditya
March 12th, 2009 3:39 amreally good tips! keep them coming
mark
March 12th, 2009 5:48 amYour RSS feed is screwy.
Ivan
March 12th, 2009 6:05 amThe RSS Feed is listing the comments on this post. You may want to fix that ;)
wilhel1812
March 12th, 2009 6:19 ami’m in ur RSS feed feeding everybody!
(seriously SM, fix that)
Antonio
March 12th, 2009 6:23 amGET OUT OF MY RSS, lol.
OMG
John (Human3rror)
March 12th, 2009 6:31 amstop…………….. RSS HACKED!
r3xha
March 12th, 2009 6:39 amwhile 1=1
rss = rss + 1
end while
what’s going on? your rss is crashed.
mario
March 12th, 2009 6:40 amVery helpful!
Thanks!!!!
Lucian Lature
March 12th, 2009 7:11 amthe rss is broken/hacked, I would say.
Brian Lang
March 12th, 2009 7:15 amSmashing + Hacked = Smacked!
Mugros
March 12th, 2009 9:41 amI start to hate the Smashing RSS feed. Their system seems to be screwed. They changed the feed provider and the problems still exist. It is a shame that a site that also lectures other sites how to do their sites, can’t handle their own.
Nagaraju Merugu
March 16th, 2009 12:19 amAppreciate for this great value added posting.
zekken5
March 16th, 2009 1:03 pmVery nice collection.Thx!!
Chintan
March 16th, 2009 9:39 pmVery nice codes, there are all types of JS and ajax available.. thanks to author…
Jamshed
March 17th, 2009 2:18 amThese are awesome Techniques
Thanx for that
jamshed
Nadun
March 18th, 2009 12:47 amAmazing!!! thanxs in billions..
George Serradinho
March 18th, 2009 12:49 amHi and thanks for the info, there sure are loads of things you can do with Ajax and JS.
Khalid Laariche
March 26th, 2009 3:48 amGreat resources as usual. Thanks!
Grant Taylor
March 26th, 2009 4:31 amSome really inspirational stuff. Thanks
wangkai
March 28th, 2009 4:56 pmit is so good !
khaledmadian
March 29th, 2009 7:21 amgood good
Hastimal Shah
April 14th, 2009 4:55 amKool Resources..
Even i like the jquery more..
Thanks
observer
May 6th, 2009 9:29 pmAwesome. Kudos.
Niks
July 1st, 2009 10:44 pmGreat useful stuff. Awesome one.
spidre
July 11th, 2009 2:02 pmHave you checked out Spry? For folks who have trouble with JavaScript, it is a wonder and very easy to use. For you designers who use Dreamweaver it is even easier with the built-in wizards.
Check out Spry
Daniel Kwiecinski
September 1st, 2009 10:14 amGreat post. Thank you. I would add to the validation section VanadiumJS.com. This is declarative, require no codding client-side validation toolkit which can be easly integrated with any server-side technology via json.
ian pratama
October 6th, 2009 8:56 amthis is cool…!, thx :D
Palacinho
November 10th, 2009 12:28 pmGracias por tal aporte vi la tecnología que usan google , fecebook y quise hacer algo asi, bien por los script .
Dave Nevill
November 29th, 2009 1:24 pmWOW.. What a great set of resources :) This is going into the favorites ASAP!
portasacra
December 21st, 2009 8:34 amwish i knew all! great post! all u need is here. cheers mate
New View Media
January 7th, 2010 9:32 amNice roundup of some of the options out there.
Keep the ideas coming….
bloglarr
January 20th, 2010 7:45 amit is so good !
Amit Yadav
February 16th, 2010 6:25 amThanks for a great article
Girish Audichya
March 5th, 2010 2:29 amawesome examples!
it is very useful, user friendly and Stylish look
Thanks
dKurve
March 12th, 2010 11:12 pmGreat collection…
Harry
March 15th, 2010 12:05 amJust one word to say….. AWESOME :)
yogesh ajax
March 15th, 2010 2:57 amwant to use the various features of Ajax
sharif
March 17th, 2010 8:09 pmThank you for nice ajax techniques.
designerashish
March 21st, 2010 2:14 amreaaly ! what a great collection, thanks for sharing.
Riadh
March 25th, 2010 8:54 amThanks a lot for sharing those techniques :)
Pham Hieu
April 4th, 2010 11:46 pmSo Awesome, Thanks so much
Syed Abrar Haider
April 27th, 2010 11:13 pmThanks Ajax Menu Was very helpful for me
Sangam
July 29th, 2010 10:59 pmwow.. these freebies are great and i loved it a lot..
Thankzzzz a lot for this list…
SergeyGu
August 31st, 2010 4:16 amAnother cool advansed table-sorter – http://www.datatables.net/
sachendra
November 14th, 2011 11:08 pmHi I want to use http://www.eyecon.ro/datepicker/ this date picker but in that calendar I want to start date from current months t next 12 months and one row only showing 3 months per row.please help me
Lucas
January 31st, 2012 7:43 amAmazing javascript list !!!