Does anyone know of crossbrowser equivalent of explicitOriginalTarget event parameter? This parameter is Mozilla specific and it gives me the element that caused the blur. Let's say i have a text i...

Consider the following JavaScript code, with an animation library (i.e. scriptaculous) to boot. window.onbeforeunload = function(event) { document.body.fade(); } Leaving the page is instantaneous...

I need to add prototype and then add scriptaculous and get a callback when they are both done loading. I am currently loading prototype like so: var script = document.createElement("script"); scri...

I have seen Scriptaculous.js file to include its required javascript files dynamically. Is there any better approach to include javascript dynamically. For example, I would like to include my js f...

Is there any way to use both the jquery and scriptaculous js files together? I was trying to implement the autocomplete feature of the cakephp framework which required the js files,prototype.js,sc...

Hi I've got a DIV section that has only its title visible initially. What I would like to achieve is that when the visitor clicks anywhere on the area of toggle_section the toggle_stuff div toggles...

I'm struggling with a problem with the Script.aculo.us Autocompleter control in IE (I've tried it in IE6 & 7). The suggestions fail to appear for the first character is entered into the text bo...

I've been implementing some nice interactive interfaces that can sort lists in my m rails app for models that use acts_as_list. I have a sort function that gets called and sets the position for eac...

The auto_complete_for dealio from script.aculo.us is great an all, but is there a way for me to selectively disable the fact that it always auto-selects the first item in the list? The problem is ...

Which is better for UI development. Are there any differences between the two UI toolkits?

I developed an application that interfaces with an institution's emergency alert system. How it works is, when there is an alert, on all of the institution's web pages it displays a scrolling marqu...

I am in the middle of the road whether to use jQuery UI or Scriptaculous for drag and drop. I am using Ruby on Rails, and Scriptaculous support in Ruby on Rails is superb with the existence of scri...

I have some elements on a page which are draggable. These same elements have a click event which navigates to another page. I'm trying to determine the best way of preventing the click event from f...

The code: <div id="Navigation" onmouseover="new Effect.toggle('Drop_Down','slide',{duration: 0.8});" onmouseout="new Effect.toggle('Drop_Down','slide',{duration: 0.8});"> <div id="Dr...

I'm really new to using JSON to handle my Ajax Request and Response cycle. I've previously used just plain old parameters passed as POST data and I've rendered straight HTML in the response which w...

What experience can you share about using multiple AJAX libraries? There are useful features in Prototype, some in jQuery, the Yahoo library, etc. Is it possible to include all libraries and use w...