20 Top Script.aculo.us Scripts you can’t live without.

1. Sexy Sliding Menu for script.aculo.us

URL: http://www.andrewsellick.com.
Description: There is also a MooTools variation with this menu, this truelly is a sexy sidebar. I am using this script on a new site I am designing.
Demo:View Demo.

2. ModalBox

URL: http://www.wildbit.com/labs/modalbox/.
Description: ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. Pretty cool.
Demo:View Demo.

3. Sortable Lists

URL: http://demo.script.aculo.us/ajax….
Description: ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. Pretty cool.
Demo:View Demo.

4. Collapsable Effects with Script.aculo.us

URL: http://www.dustindiaz.com….
Description: I like this better than other Accordian effects purely because it doesn’t call itself an Accordian (a now well overused term).
Demo:View Demo.

5. CoolTips

URL: http://www.wildbit.com/labs/cooltips/.
Description: CoolTips is a lightweight unobtrusive JavaScript web-browser tooltips replacement technique.

6. Auto-Scrolling Page Navigation

URL: http://tobielangel.com….
Description: A simple scrolling/sliding page navigation. Easy to use.
Demo:View Demo.

7. Sliding Date-Picker

URL: http://ajaxorized.com….
Description: Basically, pick any date with a slider bar. I like this.
Demo:View Demo.

8. A CSS Crossfader

URL: http://mikeomatic.net/?p=78.
Description: A great text transitional fading script.
Demo:View Demo.

9. Javascript Password Strength Meter

URL: http://www.geekwisdom.com/dyn/passwdmeter.
Description: A great addon for measuring how secure your visitors password is.

10. DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous

URL: http://www.eulerian.com….
Description: A nice and light date picker.

and the rest…

11. LightWindow v2.0.

12. Ajax In Place Editor.

13. AJAX Form Autocompletion.

14. Script.aculo.us Select Box.

15. script.aculo.us Reflector.

16. A great slider with 9 demo variations.

17. A pretty smooth accordian.

18. Mir.aculo.us effect demos.

19. Real Time Email Validation.

20. FrogJS Javascript Gallery.

8 Comments so far

1. Jeremy Lockhart on May 14, 2008 1:47 pm

   Just started to learn my way around these libraries but this definitely gives me a lot of inspiration! And hopefully showing the “higher ups” stuff like this will keep me from having to deal with Flash so much! Thanks for compiling this!

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