What Is AJAX? How Does It Work? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is used for allowing the client side of an application to communitcate with the server side of the application. Before AJAX, there was no way for the client side of a web application to communicate directly with the server....

Powerful JS function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors. Usage elements = cssQuery(selector...

a new version of jquery.suggest. Some new features include: Features: * Improved cross-browser compatibility (tested to work the same across Firefox/Safari/IE6/IE7) * Cache bug has been fixed that caused suggestions to “forget” to hide * Moved some stylings from JavaScript to CSS ...

This plugin displays a confirmation message in place before doing an action. It does not require adding any extra code apart from a call to the plugin itself. One call to $(element).confirm() will do the magic. Also, this plugin doesn’t require you to provide a callback function; it figures it...

Text higlighting is part of DynaCloud – where tags/keywords are automatically highlighted once they’re clicked – so I took that code and made it a stand-alone JavaScript text highlighting jQuery plugin. Usage Add highlight Download jquery.highlight-3.js (2 KB) and add it to your page after jQuery...

ToggleElements is designed to hide informations on your site and show it only when the user requests more information. Features * unobtrusive script, simple to setup * full customizeable via CSS * only a class and a title-attribute must be added to your original HTML * nesting toggleElements...

This tutorial for the auto completer applications i have seen just dump the code into a zip and tell you how to use it rather than how and why it works, knowing about this enables you to customise it a lot more (this has been demonstrated with the other apps i have written here)! And so we begin: JavaScript <script...

A while back I created a sortable tables custom tag using the WebFX sortable table JavaScript. While this worked pretty well, there were limitations to the sorting and limitations to my tag itself. For no particularly good reason (well other than all the good things I have heard about jQuery), I decided...

KFM is an online file manager which can be used on its own, or as a plugin for a rich-text editor such as FCKeditor or TinyMCE. KFM is Open Source, and you are free to use it in any project, whether free or commercial. drag-and-drop everything, icon-view, list-view, plugins, image manipulations, slideshows,...

JAX Suggestions is pretty much what you might have seen with Google Suggest. The basic idea is, through AJAX, to give the user an immediate response to what they’re typing and displaying the search results their input would generate. AJAX Suggestions is an unobtrusive JavaScript to add that progressive...