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....

A function that will select all dates in the currently displayed calendar month. Start with a simple Calendar instance, and set its MULTI_SELECT option to true: this.myCal = new YAHOO.widget.Calendar("calendarEl", "calendar","10/2006"); this.myCal.Options.MULTI_SELECT =...

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...

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...

After work on the jQuery plugin cookieJar it was pointed out that cookie data is sent with every request and that cookies have a limit of 4KB, this got me thinking. What about storing this information on the server. This is done by making a request to the server when the page first loads with a request...

I finally got around to making a re-usable AJAX auto-suggest field. Here it is in action. The AutoSuggest class adds a popdown menu of suggested values to a text field. The user can either click directly on a suggestion to enter it into the field, or navigate the list using the up and down arrow keys,...

This is a rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL that allows users to rate things like can be done on Netflix or Amazon, all web 2.0-like with no page refresh. It is a major improvement on the previous version because it is now unobtrusive, meaning that if Javascript is off it will still work (although...