MooTools Tutorials
Create an Animated Sliding Button Using MooTools
Buttons (or links) are usually the elements on our sites that we want to draw a lot of attention to. Unfortunately many times they end up looking the most boring. You don't have to let that happen though! I recently found a...
Using MooTools ScrollSpy to Load More Items via JSON/AJAX
Last July I wrote an epic dominant unbelievable fantastic outstanding awesome NetTuts post called Create a Twitter-Like "Load More" Widget Using CSS, HTML, JSON, and jQuery or MooTools where I used a MooTools/AJAX/JSON system for loading additional items when the user clicks a "Load...
Introducing MooTools ElementSpy
One part of MooTools I love is the ease of implementing events within classes. Just add Events to your Implements array and you can fire events anywhere you want -- these events are extremely helpful. ScrollSpy and many other popular MooTools plugins would...
Checkbox Filtering Using MooTools ElementFilter
When I first wrote MooTools ElementFilter, I didn't think much of it. Fast forward eight months later and I've realized I've used the plugin a billion times. Hell, even one of the "big 3" search engines is using it for their maps application.
Scrolling “Agree to Terms” Component with MooTools ScrollSpy
Remember the good old days of Windows applications forcing you to scroll down to the bottom of the "terms and conditions" pane, theoretically in an effort ensure that you actually read them? You're saying "No David, don't do it." Too late -- I've done...
Google-Style Element Fading Using MooTools or jQuery
Google recently introduced an interesting effect to their homepage: the top left and top right navigation items don't display until you move your mouse or leave the search term box. Why? I can only speculate that they want their homepage as...
Drag and Drop Z-Index Stacking
In an example for a previous post, I showed you how to use opacity during a drag'n'drop transaction. One bit I didn't account for was element stacking and bringing the most recent element to the top of the stack. To do...
Printing MooTools Accordion Items
Sometimes we're presented with unforeseen problems when it comes to our JavaScript effects. In this case, I'm talking about printing jQuery and MooTools accordions. Each "closed" accordion content element has its height set to 0 which means it will be hidden when the...
Sliding Labels Using MooTools
A week back I saw a great effect created by CSSKarma: input labels being animated horizontally. The idea is everything positive: elegant, practical, unobtrusive, and requires very little jQuery code. Luckily the effect doesn't require much MooTools code either! The HTML A...
Downloadify: Client-Side File Generation Using JavaScript and Flash
The following tools is in its very beta stages and works intermittently. Its so damn useful that I had to show it off now though! I recently stumbled upon Downloadify, a client-side file generation tool based on JavaScript and Flash ActionScript code. A...