Over the past few years, our company has had several clients who have needed a smaller shopping cart, usually to sell just a couple of items. We generally built these small carts using paypal. I realized it would be nice to package this up, and create a lightweight, easy-to-use, flexible shopping cart. So...

TypeSelect is a JavaScript-based solution for using selectable custom fonts on the web. It combines the power of typeface.js, jQuery, the canvas, toDataURL, CSS background properties & real overlayed text to accomplish this feature.

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...

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...

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...

A Mootools-powered, unobtrusive, Javascript news ticker library. /mouthful Moostick will take in any type of container ( , …) and turn it into an animated news ticker, fading between each entry at a set interval. This project is an experiment in mootoology. Quite arguably over-engineered for its core...

A news ticker (not new sticker!) plugin based on snippets from this discussion: News scroller/ticker with jQuery?. Sequentially iterates though items in an unordered list, showing the current one and hiding the previous one. If you the mouse is currently over the ticker, it will not change to the next...

Add an outline and background to text inputs when they are given focus. The following parameter are used. oColour – Outline colour oWidth – Outline width bgColour – Background colour textColour – Text Colour If the fields aren’t given a border, they will get an inset one...

I’m continuing to enjoy working with jQuery. This article shows a simple method for enabling semi-transparent rollovers which actually work on IE 6. Yes, you could use a .gif file for a crude version, but many effects, especially “glowing” effects just look much better if you use a format which...

This is a jQuery plugin to allow users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook. Features Intuitive UI for selecting multiple...