Top Rated Scripts | JavaScript

IE6+ incorporates a new feature called MyImage Toolbar, which, if enabled on Tools|Internet Options, provides the user with a popup menu over images that allows the user to instantly save, print, or email any image in a page. This technical note shows how to disable or enable this feature.

Mike's DHTML scroller features smooth pausing between messages, configurable scroll speed, color, and font. Works in IE4+, NS4, and NS6+.

DOM Tooltip allows developers to have dynamic and configurable tooltips on HTML pages. This library supports Mozilla/Netscape6+, IE 5+, Konqueror and Opera 7. The tooltips are configured through three class definitions in a stylesheet, and consist of two parts, the caption and the content. Tips can be either greasy, sticky or velcro, where sticky tips remain after mouseout of the object and require a click to close, velcro tips close when you mouse out of the tooltip and greasy close when you mouse out of the target that created it. The tooltips cannot even popup embedded windows onload.

Do you ever receive multiple copies of a single form submission? Do your visitors click the submit button over and over, hoping it will hurry up the process? This script will solve the problem by preventing the visitor from submitting the form after the first submission. Basic field validation also included.

This comprehensive tutorial explains various implementations of JavaScript rollovers. It discusses: How to use the document.images object, How to make your rollovers backward compatible, How to create an instance of the Image object, How to combine several rollovers to create a menu, How to create multiple rollovers, How to ensure maximum "transition" quality, and How to create nested rollovers.

Display how much time has passed since an expired date with this rare script. Show your visitors how long your site has been online, for example.

One way spammers get your email address is with programs written to extract addresses from web pages. These robots, as they are called, look for mailto: links in the body of web pages. A good way to protect your email address from spammer lists created in this way is keep your email address off web pages. But what if you want people to have your links to your email address? This script, SafeMail, solves the problem. SafeMail lets you put your address on the page using javascript's document.write method. With this, your user's browser displays your email link exactly as if you had coded it with HTML, except you can achieve this effect without at any point putting the string of your email address in the code. This means spambots find nothing, and you stay clear of spam.

These two handy functions are useful when you are trying to keep a dynamic element in view or find if the user has scrolled the page by returning the number of pixels the page has been scrolled.

This script implements a draggable slideshow that can be used much like a popup window, but without the usual focus problems popups imply. Simple controls to show or hide the slideshow are also included, and any number of images can be used. IE browsers show a cross-fade effect between images in the sequence. Compatible with NS4-7 & IE. Easy to install.