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40 Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS - Smashing Magazine

40 Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur – delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user interface should be able to cope with. To do that, developers have to consider subtle and well-thought tooltips – used correctly, they can greatly improve user experience and help users to get things done. In Web such “responsive” hints can be provided by tooltips. E.g., unclear input fields in web forms are perfect examples of a situation you might be willing to use a tooltip for. Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. We’d like to thank Jurgen Koller for compiling an extensive list of tooltip scripts we’ve stumbled upon during our search. Let’s take a look at 43 handy tooltips scripts for intuitive and well-designed visual clues. Tooltips: AJAX & JavaScript Solutions CSS-Based Solutions Further Solutions It's done.

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clueTip Plugin Demo clueTip Plugin Demo Below are quite a few examples of how you can add a clueTip to your page, using a wide range of options. Keep in mind that there is nothing magical about the HTML markup. You can use any jQuery selector you want to attach your clueTips. For example, if you want to attach clueTips to all links with a class of "peanuts," you would simply write in your jQuery code: $('a.peanuts').cluetip();.

Javascript Best Practices Introduction This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing javascript code, based on opinions and experience from many developers in the javascript community. Since this is a list of recommendations rather than a list of absolute rules, experienced developers may have slightly differing opinions from those expressed below. labelify: a jQuery plugin to add labels to your textboxes ignore A fairly common design pattern in web forms is to have some explanatory help text for a textfield appear inside the text field, and then remove it when the user clicks into that field. It has the benefit of putting the help precisely where the user's looking.

15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table. But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table. 1. DataTables jScrollPane - cross browser styleable scrollbars with jQuery and CSS jScrollPane is a cross-browser jQuery plugin by Kelvin Luck which converts a browser's default scrollbars (on elements with a relevant overflow property) into an HTML structure which can be easily skinned with CSS. jScrollPane is designed to be flexible but very easy to use. After you have downloaded and included the relevant files in the head of your document all you need to to is call one javascript function to initialise the scrollpane. You can style the resultant scrollbars easily with CSS or choose from the existing themes. There are a number of different examples showcasing different features of jScrollPane and a number of ways for you to get support.

Fun with Overflows Background The first is a scrollable timeline. A couple of readers requested a demo of how Plurk’s browse timeline works. In addition, in the last month, Google released a 10 year timeline – so I wanted to show how this works. The second was a request from Trevor Morris who’s involved with/runs Geek in the Park. He asked whether the techniques I used in a jQuery marquee plugin I wrote recently could be used to smooth out CPU spikes that were occurring on his site when the header pattern flowed (see example below) jQuery for JavaScript programmers When jQuery came out back in January 2006, my first impression was that it was a cute hack. Basing everything around CSS selectors was a neat idea (see getElementsBySelector) but the chaining stuff looked like a bit of a gimmick and the library as a whole didn't look like it would cover all of the bases. I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad. Over the past few months it's become clear to me exactly how wrong I was. jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering.

30 Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars - Noupe Design Blog May 07 2008 Every once in a while we like to focus on different design elements and how to use javascript and ajax to make them more interactive and more flexible to the user. In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Sliders, Scrollers and scrollbar techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste has its demos served. You might be interested to check some of the designs that was mentioned in the posts below:

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