Let's face it, Multiple Select Lists are not the best of HTML form fields, not least because you have no means of finding the option that you want quickly.  OK, you can type the first letter of the option you want but that is it, it will help you get to...

In January 2008 I released for public downloading the first version of my Ajax Availability Calendar. Over the first few months I continually developed it, fixing bugs and taking into account the suggestions and requests made by the many people who...

Every now and then you get a client that absolutely insists on having a "splash screen". However hard you try to convince them that it is not good for SEO (search engines like content and links) or for visitors (after all, you are wasting their time),...

A short while ago I wrote a elasticMultipleSelect class that allowed you to set a fixed width on a multiple select list via css to maintain the general design of the page and then, when the select list receives the focus, it expands out horizontally to...

Following on from my previous post demonstrating my mooSelect class, today I needed to create something different, again with a multiple select list. This time the brief was to make a standard multiple select list “expand” when it gets focus...

EDITED: [2009-11-12] Well, I have taken the plunge.... I have finally my first mootools class :) Despite all the tutorials claiming that it is easy, I must admit to have found it rather complicated.  I am the first to admit that I have problems with...

A few days ago I wrote a post to demonstrate how I was adding form fields dynamically with the use of AJAX and Mootools. I have now created a new demo that further demonstrates the flexibility of this system. See demo This demo includes a...

I am currently working on a project where the administrator needs to be able to upload any number of items within one master project. Clearly I didn't want to present them with a long page of repetative form fields and anyway, there was no way of...

I tried to tweet this but... the Twitter server was down (again). Not even a a whale this time to look at :( All I wanted to say was, wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit a tweet once it has been tweeted!

Just spent the best part of my Sunday afternoon trying to get what, on the face of it, was a simple task. Using mootools, I wanted to have a simple highlight effect using highlight() as the mouse rolled over the elements and, when clicked, an ajax call...