jQuery and Mootools plugin to show tooltips
The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small “hover box” appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooltip)
Tooltips are nice way to show small bits of information to the user. The main advantage is it doesn’t drive the traffic away and at the same time we can show necessary information to the user.
I have listed 3 plugins for jQuery and 2 for mootools. Read more
jQuery Ajax File Upload
Ajax file upload plugin allows users to easily upload multiple files without refreshing the page. In addition, you can use any element to show file selection window.
This plugin creates invisible file input on top of the button you provide, so when user clicks on your button the normal file selection window is shown. And after user selects a file, plugin submits form that contains file input to an iframe. So it isn’t true ajax, but brings same user experience. Read more
jGrowl – To show unobtrusive messages
jGrowl is a nice way to show unobtrusive messages or informations to user.
Advantages
- The default style is good enough
- The message can be shown for a pre defined time (For eg: 10 seconds and then it will close automatically)
- Support for sticky messages – which do not close automatically
- Customizable
jQuery plugins to show data in table format or chart format
Need to show data in a tabular format or in a nice chart? jQuery has two plugins that enables this easily. They are jQChart and jquery CSV2Table. jqCharts reads data from file and creates charts and csv2table reads csv file and creates tables. Read more
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
