I was recently directed to a link for a new Putty.exe client which had some extra options like minimizing to the system tray and window transparency. Upon visiting the site, I saw a new technique I have seen before. It is a drag & drop type download system where you drag an icon over another, then...

gWidgets is a collection of simple javascript “widgets” with AJAX capability. Open-source license. gWidgets is a simple, unobtrusive and light (roughly 20k) javascript library that delivers “widgets” for your website. It is one convenient package with several widgets included...

The Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor (RTE) is based on the designMode() functionality introduced in Internet Explorer 5, and implemented in Mozilla 1.3+ using the Mozilla Rich Text Editing API. Features The Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor now includes table support (as of 2/10/2005) as well as an option...

this uses MooTools v1.11. I’ll be releasing a new version of this soon, but if you can’t wait, the easiest way to get this to v1.2 is to replace Json.evaluate with JSON.decode and replace .remove() with .destroy(). List of All Options and Defaults dayChars 1 Integer. Number of characters...

BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website. Implementation of the tooltips, however, requires no knowledge of DHTML or javascript. Move your mouse over the items below to see examples. You can use combinations of the above as well. - BoxOver is free and distributed under the GNU license...

There has been a lot of talk about CSS buttons lately. Very understandable, since there are a lot of web applications being developed today that could benefit from slick looking buttons without loss in accessibility. Before jumping on the train myself, I just want to emphasize that you should not use...

Now, you may have seen similar things on a few websites already, wikipedia certainly makes use of the technique to highlight external links. The astute of you may notice that the ‘external’ link isn’t actually external – think of it more as ‘absolute’. How do we achieve these results...

You should also check out my script Liquid Canvas which uses HTML canvas to render rounded corners with drop shadows. Rounding corners with JavaScript has a long history. Everything started on 16th of March 2005 with Nifty Corners and loads of other libs followed. RUZEE.ShadedBorder itself is the successor...

Handler feature added! Finally I decided to add a little piece of extra functionality to the EasyDrag plugin. It has been constantly requested, so now you can download and test it. I will be releasing it as a final version after some feedback, so please let me know if it works for you. How does it work? It’s...

Custom scroll bars are usually bad, and they should be avoided whenever possible. But sometimes you just need that look to go with your website in a place that is design sensitive, and not content sensitive, or your customer wants them bad. For those cases, I have come up with a javascript solution that...