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![AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2]()
AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2
This post has been updated: Using jQuery or MooTools For Drag, Drop, Sort, Save. The code on this page is no longer best practice. There a many examples of egregious usages of AJAX out there but every once in a while you find...
![Script & Style Exclusive: Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed]()
Script & Style Exclusive: Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed
My duties at Script & Style have led me to writing an exclusive article about how you can add custom variables to your RSS feed. From the article: As most of you probably know, Script & Style was created by myself, David Walsh, and
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Fancy Navigation with MooTools JavaScript
Navigation menus are traditionally boring, right? Most of the time the navigation menu consists of some imagery with a corresponding mouseover image. Where's the originality? I've created a fancy navigation menu that highlights navigation items and creates a chain effect. The XHTML Just some simple...
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MooTools Form Field Default Plugin
One nice, subtle enhancement you can add to your website is a default input value that disappears when the user clicks into the field and reappears if the user leaves the field empty. It's rather easy to do, but I decided to create a MooTools...
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Email Protection with MooTools JavaScript v2
Earlier this week I posted an article describing how you can protect your email links from spambots using MooTools. After some suggestions, I've made some improvements to my system. The XHTML I've switched to using a span tag instead of an anchor to prevent search engines...
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PHP IMDB Scraper
It's been quite a while since I've written a PHP grabber and the itch finally got to me. This time the victim is the International Movie Database, otherwise known as IMDB. IMDB has info on every movie ever made (or so it seems). Their...
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Prevent Default Event Actions Using MooTools 1.2
Many sweet JavaScript events are trigger by clicking on a link or a submit button. What if you don't want the browser to follow the link? What if you don't want the form to be submitted traditionally? MooTools allows you to prevent the...
![PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper]()
PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper
The MooTools Accordion plugin seems to be the plugin that people seem to have the most problems with. It's an awesome plugin, so I can see why so many people want to use it, but I think that may be part of the problem.
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Color Palette Generator Using jQuery
As I continue to learn jQuery, I think it's important that I begin by porting over scripts I've created using MooTools. One of those scripts is my Color Palette Generator script, which debuted on Eric Wendelin's blog. For those of you that...
![dwClickable: Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2]()
dwClickable: Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2
I recently received an email from a reader who was really impressed with Block Clickable, a jQuery script that took the link within a list item and made the entire list item clickable. I thought it was a neat script so I...
