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...

File inputs (< input type= "file" />) are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation. Before...

Lighter.js is a free syntax highlighting class developed with MooTools. It was created with the MooTools developer in mind and takes advantage of many of the Framework’s features. Using it can be as simple as adding a single script to your webpage, selecting the elements you wish to highlight,...

TableSorter plug-in for jQuery tablesorter 2.0 The new tablesorter 2.0 has been released The main new features include: * Multi-column sorting * In-line support for setting options done via the class attribute on the TH elements. * The plugin has been re-written from scratch. * Support for rowspan and...

Control.Rating attaches to any div, span or table cell on your page in one line of code to create a fully customizable CSS based ratings widget. Each control can optionally post an Ajax request when it’s value is set, or can interact with text inputs or select elements that are already on your...

Perhaps I’m using delicious.com wrong, but sometimes I wish I had the ability to narrow down my results from a variety of different tags rather than excluding results that don’t share the first tag I marked. That’s where this exercise came into play. The technique can be used anywhere....

Lighter.js is a free syntax highlighting class developed with MooTools. It was created with the MooTools developer in mind and takes advantage of many of the Framework’s features. Using it can be as simple as adding a single script to your webpage, selecting the elements you wish to highlight,...

There are quite a few Javascript implementations of tabbed interfaces out there on the web. How much better, though, to be able to change from pagetab to pagetab without a page refresh? Here’s an example of a tabbed interface using Ajax to load the new pages. We are going to use the AHAH functions...