100 Best JavaScript Resources

by Matt on February 9, 2009 · 76 comments

in Coding Resources,Design Tools,Featured,Resources

JavaScript is an extremely useful scripting language for enhancing user experience and usability. It is becoming more and more popular, as more developers begin to make cool techniques accessible. Here are 100 excellent JavaScript (and a few AJAX) techniques, plugins, and resources based on the major libraries of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo.

JavaScript Techniques and Tutorials

Coda Pop-Up Tutorial

coda_js

Build An Incredible Login Form with jQuery

slider_js

Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

tablist_js

Create a Simple, Intelligent Accordion Effect Using Prototype and Scriptaculus

accordian_js

Create a Simple, Powerful Product Highlighter with MooTools

highlighthover_js

Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

poll_js

Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery

filterfolio

Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock

leopard1_js

Adding to Our Leopard Desktop with jQuery

leopard2_js

Use the jQuery UI to Control the Size of Your Text

textslider_js

Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

dropdown_js

Animated Menus Using jQuery

hovermenu_js

Fancy Box

lightbox_js

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

contentslider_js

Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery

hovertooltip_js

jQuery Pagination

pagination_js

Using CSS and Mootools to simulate Flash horizontal navigation effect

horizontalslider_js

How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

igoogle_js

Submit A Form Without Page Refresh using jQuery

contact_js

Coda Slider Effect

codaslider_js

A Mac OS X-style Dock In JavaScript

dock_js

Starbox

starboxes_js

Magic Zoom

magiczoom_js

Magic Magnify

magnify_js

Apple Slider Gallery

appleslider_js

Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

cartoonrobot_js

Animate a hover with jQuery

animatehover_js1

Learning jQuery: Fading Menu – Replacing Content

menufader_js

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

menubgeffects_js

Opacity Change

opacity_js

jQuery image upload and crop

crop_js

Password Strength Meter

password_js

jQuery Autotab

autotab_js

Sliding Top Panel

panelslide_js

context highlighting web forms

formhiglighting_js

jQuery hover sub tag cloud

cloudhover

jQuery pageSlide

pageslider_js

Create a simple ul list with a nice slide-out effect for <li> elements

ullist_js

Portfolio Layout Idea Using jQuery

foliolayout_js

Easy Image or Content Slider

featslider_js

mooSlide

mooslides_js

jQuery.SerialScroll

scrollto_js

Agile Carousel

agilecarousel_jhs

Animated JavaScript Slideshow

slideshow_js

Hyphenation in Web

hyphenation_js

Textboxlist Auto-Completion

textboxlist_js

syntaxhighlighter

syntaxhighlighting_js

CSS Sprites2

csssprites2_js

jParralax

jparallax_js

BarackSlideshow

obamaslideshow_js

Galleria

galleria_js

date.js

datejs_js

ajax im

ajaxim_js

Ajax AutoSuggest

ajaxautosuggest_js

Taggify

phototooltip

MooFlow

mooflow_js

amCharts

amcharts

PlotKit

plotkit_js

JavaScript tabifier

tabifier_js

fValidator

fvalidator_js

jQuery Interactive Date Range Picker

daterange_js

NoGray Time Picker

timepicker_js

Yetii – Yet (E)Another JavaScript Tab Interface

yetii_js

Creating a carousel with MooTools

mootoolscarousel_js

Carousel.us

carouselus

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

ajaxload_js

iPhone Unlock Screen

ipone_js

Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery

applestylemenu_js

AJAX Upload

ajaxupload_js

Create Accessible Charts Using Canvas and jQuery

canvaschart_js

Simple jQuery Form Validation

validator_js

jQuery Context Menu

contextmenu_js

Kwicks for jQuery

kwicks_js

jQuery File Tree

filetree_js

jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu

ipodmenu_js

MooTools Home Page-Inspired Navigation Effect

naveffect_js1

jQuery books widget

booksslider_js

Revealing Photo Slider

photoslider_js

Facebox Image and Content Viewer

facebookcontent_js

Simple Controls Gallery

gallerycontrol

Fix Overflow

overflowfix_js

Setting Equal Heights with jQuery

equalheights_js

Scrollable

scrollable_js

Jcrop

jcrop_js

Music Player Using Mouse Gestures and Hotkeys

mediaplayer_js1

Moo Canvas

canvas_js

iCarousel

horiscroller2_js

Rich Text Editor

texteditor_js

Creating a table with dynamically highlighted columns

table_js

Simple selector list using CSS and Javascript

selectorlist_js

Change the layer background color using a simple Javascript functions

bgcolorchanger_js

Simple images slider to create Flickr-like slideshows

flickrbrowser_js

Lightbox using mootools and pathfusion multibox

lightboxmootools_js

Fantastic News Ticker Newsvine-like using Mootools

newsticker_js

JavaScript Articles

10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI

10js

jQuery Tutorials for Designers

jswdw

What You Need to Know About jQuery 1.3

jquery13

JavaScript Websites

Sikbox

sikbox

Javaspript & AJAX on NETTUTS

nettutsjs

Woork

woork

JQuery.com

jquery

MooTools

mootools

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{ 71 comments… read them below or add one }

AdrianMG February 9, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Thanks for the referral ;)

Jonny February 9, 2009 at 7:12 pm

This is awesome, thanks! :)

joyoge designers' bookmark February 9, 2009 at 7:43 pm

very nice useful tutorials thanks..

Justin Slack February 10, 2009 at 2:54 am

Fantastic resource. Thanks for all your effort.

Edwin February 10, 2009 at 6:33 am

Great list! Thnx! :)

Craig - Abrishca Digital Media February 10, 2009 at 7:38 am

What a stacked roundup! Thanks heaps.

Eduardo Sasso February 10, 2009 at 11:39 am

Great post! Thanks for featuring Sikbox.

Funny Moments February 10, 2009 at 11:46 am

Cool list.

cssProdigy February 10, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Great list.

Angie Bowen February 11, 2009 at 12:45 am

Wow, great roundup! So much to go through!

Saravana Kumaran.T February 11, 2009 at 9:41 am

I had collected more information’s for your sites thanks for your help.

Saravana Kumaran.T February 11, 2009 at 9:44 am

i had get the source code of this
“Build An Incredible Login Form with jQuery”
but its not working in my browsers (IE and firefoxe)

Zed February 11, 2009 at 7:13 pm

Incredible post. Thank you very much…

Dan February 12, 2009 at 5:32 am

Seen many of these before, but some great new links too.

Fantastic list!

Antonio Lupetti February 12, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Thanks for the mention :)

clicker February 13, 2009 at 4:56 am

Great collection, I only miss some more carousel effects…

Peter Aland February 13, 2009 at 5:02 am

great resource, we will be using some of these!

chaoskaizer February 13, 2009 at 9:14 am

awesome resources, thanks for sharing. Seem like there is 103 resources link & most are jquery ^D

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Joseph McCann February 13, 2009 at 10:01 am

I just posted this one the yesterday, February 12th:

A Gracefully Degrading Tabs Plugin & Tutorial

AudiOxide February 15, 2009 at 4:04 am

What an impressive list! Excellent Roundup!

Kevin February 15, 2009 at 2:32 pm

This is truly incredible for a rookie like myself. Thanks for all the resources.

Antonio February 16, 2009 at 2:48 pm

5 * List

DUGG!!!

computeryah February 16, 2009 at 2:55 pm

Cool !
Thanks …

webtizer February 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm

thanks for great resource .. really useful

Loktar February 19, 2009 at 3:38 pm

The AMCharts is Flash not JS… Great list other than that though!

Selvam February 19, 2009 at 8:35 pm

This is awesome, fantastic resource. Thanks for all your effort.

Paul February 20, 2009 at 1:36 am

That’s quite the list. I’m definitely going to bookmark this. Thank you!

p@r@noid February 20, 2009 at 4:13 am

That’s a huge list

thenetguruz February 20, 2009 at 11:46 am

Awesome list! A little too big to check all but I have saved this page for future reference. Thanks a lot.

UTogger February 21, 2009 at 12:25 am

Wow–such an extensive list! Thanks for this great map to great resources!

Marco February 22, 2009 at 6:03 am

Woooow – That’s one amazing and complete list! Bookmarked this page, want to try some of the tutorials later ;) .

Also, thanks for including my “iPhone Unlock Screen” tutorial!

Keep up the good work.

Greetings,,,

matt February 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm

great list – thanks for this – i’ve been looking for some of these.

karthik February 23, 2009 at 12:59 am

THANKS FOR THIS REFERRAL…. IT IS AWESOME

inventinoary February 24, 2009 at 8:58 am

Great scripts ! thanks for your post.

Bob February 26, 2009 at 12:01 am

Where is Quirksmode.org ?

PS Website Design February 27, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Great list. Nice to see some new web sites and not the same old, same old.

Darpan March 7, 2009 at 4:00 am

very nice, fantastic script, you are a genius

loveleen March 13, 2009 at 4:36 am

thats an amazing list.. !!
bookmarked!!

Jeremy March 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm

Very nice list of scripts! I will def bookmark this :)

Snurf March 17, 2009 at 5:54 am

Great Stuff, all the info on this page has been a great help thanks a lot.

sir jorge March 19, 2009 at 6:45 pm

I needed this months ago! I’m glad it’s here though.

Meshach March 19, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Very exhaustive list. Wow!

Jeremy McLean April 2, 2009 at 2:10 pm

I Love these resources – they are extremely useful!

Thank you,
Twitter – @jeremymclean

Mason Stewart April 4, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Fantastic and overwhelming! Thanks a batrillion!

Mahbub April 20, 2009 at 4:51 am

WOW, what an effort to put them al together. Jquery rocks in most of them.!!

Bill April 22, 2009 at 8:05 am

It just amazes me what some people can create.

Jinesh April 28, 2009 at 9:19 am

thanx for sharing….

Jurgen May 14, 2009 at 7:16 am

Great collection! Thanks for sharing!

neki chan June 6, 2009 at 7:07 pm

oww.. nice >.<
thanks ….

Yunus June 17, 2009 at 11:10 am

Great collection.

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