Javascript in Modern Web Design

Image Zoom and Popup

Lightbox

You’re probably very familiar with Lightbox — a light Javascript used to display overlay images on the current page. The original Lightbox
was released in 2005. Since then, there are many scripts released with
similar features using different approaches and Javascript libraries.

jQuery lightBox Plugin

This is exactly the same as Lightbox JS, but written on top of jQuery library.

Thickbox

Thickbox is a jQuery plugin that is very similar to Lightbox, but
comes with more features. It allows you to display: single image,
multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served
through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

Note: Web Designer Wall uses Thickbox to display the gallery images and tutorial demos.

Highslide JS

Highslide JS serves the same purposes as Thickbox, but it has the zoom effect and allows you to drag the overlay window.

FancyBox

FancyBox is a jQuery plugin that is designed to replace the overused
Lightbox. It has similar features, but better transition effects (the
design is Mac-like).

jQZoom

jQZoom allows you to show a magnified image of the thumbnail. This
technique is commonly used in eCommerce websites (check out the Gap site for a sample).

Gallery and Slideshow

Slideshow 2! for Mootools

Slideshow 2! is a javascript class for Mootools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website.

SmoothGallery

Using mootools v1.11, this javascript gallery and slideshow system
allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries,
slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website.

jQuery Galleria

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads
the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails
when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you
choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed
thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Noobslide

NoobSlide is a MooTools class that lets you create timed slideshows and sliding panels. Visit the website to view the demos.

Product Slider (demo)

This shows a demonstration of a slider widget from the jQuery UI library used to create the product slider as seen on the Apple – Mac website.

Carousel

jCarousel

jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in
horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML
content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and
forth (with or without animation).

YUI Carousel Component

The carousel component manages a list of content (HTML LI elements
within a UL) that can be displayed horizontally or vertically. The
content can be scrolled back and forth with or without animation. The
content can reference static HTML content or the list items can be
created dynamically on-the-fly (with or without Ajax).

DynamicDrive – Carousel Slideshow

Carousel Slideshow is a fabulous DHTML script for the showcasing of
images on your site. It displays images in a 3D, carousel fashion.

iCarousel – MooTools

iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating
carousel like widgets. You can use iCarousel as news ticker/scroller or
image gallery slider.

Panel Slider

Coda Slider Plugin

Coda Slider is a jQuery plugin that imitates the panel sliding effects as seen on the Coda website.

jQuery Coda Slide Tutorial (demo)

This is a tutorial from jQuery For Designers to show you how to create the Coda panel slider.

Sliding Tabs (demo)

Sliding Tabs is a mootools 1.11 plugin which adds a pretty neat
effect. It’s a clone of something seen on Panic Software’s Coda site,
which in turn was very similar to a widget used in the iTunes Music
Store.

Tabs

jQuery UI Tabs

jQuery Tabs is a powerful and flexible jQuery plugin that lets you create customizable tab navigation (highly recommended).

jQuery Tabs Tutorial (demo)

Another awesome tutorial from jQueryForDesigners.com to show you how to create a basic tab navigation with jQuery.

MooTabs

MooTabs is a tiny(3kb) class for MooTools. As the name suggests, its
main purpose is to help out with the creation of simple tab navigation.

Sliding Tabs Tutorial (demo)

A tutorial from Nettuts.com to show you how to create a sliding tab with jQuery.

Scroll to Anchor

jQuery ScrollTo (demo)

A very flexible jQuery plugin that lets you create scrolling
animation to any position of a web page with customizable erasing and
speed options.

SmoothScroll (demo)

A simple MooTools script that creates smooth scrolling to anchors on a web page.

Animated Scrolling with jQuery

Learning jQuery shows you how to create an animated “scroll to anchor” with just a few lines of code.

Tooltips

jTips (demo)

A customizable jQuery plugin that displays tooltip popup — with either static html text or Ajax content.

jQuery Tooltip Plugin (demo)

Another nice Tooltip plugin.

Tooltip and Image Preview (demo)

A very simple jQuery script that displays tooltip and image preview (I use it on Best Web Gallery).

Accordion

jQuery Accordion (demo)

This plugin creates an accordion menu. It works with nested lists, definition lists, or just nested divs.

Apple.com Sidebar Accordion (demo)

jQueryForDesigner.com shows you how to create the accordion slider as seen on the Apple website.

MooTools Accordion

The Accordion gives you a fancy way to show only the content you really need.

MooTools Image Menu

Image Menu is a MooTools plugin that creates the horizontal accordion image menu.

Flash and Image Text Replacement

sIFR 3 (demo)

sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with
text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not
your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes
this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.

jQuery sIFR (demo)

A jQuery plugin that does the sIFR for you.

FLIR (demo)

Facelift Image Replacement is an image replacement script that
dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in
fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The
generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via
Javascript and visible to all modern browsers.

CSS Stylesheet Switcher

A List Apart – Alternative Style

The original stylesheet switcher by Paul Sowden. Believe it or not,
this trick was invented in 2001 (not a modern trick after all).

Switch Stylesheets with jQuery (demo)

Stylesheet switcher with jQuery.

MooTools Styleswitcher (demo)

CSS stylesheet switcher with MooTools.

Form Styling

FancyForm – MooTools (demo)

A MooTools plugin that replaces the browser default checkboxes and radio buttons with custom styles.

PrettyCheckboxes – jQuery

Same as FancyForm, but using jQuery library.

jQuery Selectbox Plugin (demo)

A simple plugin that allows you to replace the form select list with custom styles.

Custom Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Select Lists

Give your form a complete makeover with this Javascript and CSS.

jQuery Form Input Example Plugin (demo)

A jQuery plugin that gives user hints on what to enter in the input fields.

Unobtrusive Slider Control V2 (demo)

This script lets you create custom slider controls associated with input fields.

More Form styling links at Noupe.com/css/form-elements…

Form Validation

jQuery Validate (demo)

A very plugin that allows you to build client-side validation and Ajax form.

MooTools Validate

A MooTools form validation plugin (similar to jQuery Validate).

JSValidate (demo)

JSValidate is a form validator that utilizes aspects of prototype
and scriptaculous to bring you a simple to execute, non-intrusive
javascript form validator. With minimal setup, your forms can be
processing clean data in no time at all.