Three jQuery modal plugins to repace alert and confirm

alert() and confirm() are two javascript functions that you should not use in your web 2.0 sites . The main problem with these are the way those blocks the user from interacting with browser. They are modal in behaviour, that means the user should take an action before he can do anything with browser. He can’t even switch to another tab. Here, we suggest three jQuery plugins to ditch the notorious alert() function.

They are jQuery Modal Dialog, jqModal, jQuery SimpleModal Read more

jQuery BlockUI Plugin

It is a unique jquery plugin to prevent the user from clicking on page elements. For eg:, we may use this script to prevent the repeated clicking on submit button, wait for an Ajax response etc. Read more

Featured content slider – Auto advancing

Using jQuery Coda plugin, css-tricks.com has created a very good script for a featured content gallery with auto advancing. It can be created with simple html markups. Read more

jQuery Coda Slider

There are two jQuery plugins to emulate the Coda style. One uses scrollTo plugin and the other uses jQuery easing plugin Read more

jQuery floating box plugin

In may cases, web page contents does not fit into the screen, we will have scroll down to the page to read whole contents. bu doing so, we will lose those information on top. This javascript Floating Menu will do the trick and to keep  specified contents already visible.

Like the author says, sometimes we want to show some information to the user regardless of the page position. For eg: On a long page of information a link to the top can be shown always at the bottom right corner. In those cases you can use this plugin. Read more