Here is a collection of the most useful prototype plugins grouped in to categories so that you can find your script based on your needs. Includes scripts for image galleries, lightbox, in place editors, form validation, modal windows, image manipulation, auto complete, table sorting etc.

Useful resources

• Prototype tutorials
• Script Aculous tutorials
• Prototype compressed versions
• Prototype & Script Aculous(script.aculo.us) compressed

Prototype image gallery & lightbox

ProtoFlow

ProtoFlow is the prototype equivalent of Apple’s coverflow effect. Nicely implemented with reflection (reflection.js script required).

LightView

It is an excellent script which can show images, movies, flash or iframe content in an overlay effect. It supports slideshow mode for images and auto detection of media using file name extension.

qGallery

This is not yet complete and is not available for download. But the demos are worth watching and looks promising. It is aimed to be a complete gallery script with support for XML based galleries width different viewing options, thumbnail zoom etc.

Lightbox

It is one of the first lightbox scripts.

Prototype auto complete

http://www.brandspankingnew.net/specials/ajax_autosuggest/ajax_autosuggest_autocomplete.html
http://www.beauscott.com/examples/autocomplete/doc/examples.html

Prototype UI (Slider & Modal Window)

Prototype UI is a javascript library based on Prototype (1.6) and Script.aculo.us (1.8). It’s a library of User Interface components, based on a common fundation classes, which could be easily used by various web applications.

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Prototype tool tip

Prototip

It is a good script with customizable tool tips. The site contains lot of examples of customization.

Prototype inline editors

Edit In Place

Ajax In Place Rich Editor

This supports tinyMCE integration with in place editor.

Prototype form validation

http://www.benjaminkeen.com/software/rsv/prototype/demo.php?page=7
http://tetlaw.id.au/upload/pages/really-easy-field-validation/

Prototype table sorting

Prototype image manipulation

Prototype Cropper

Phototype

phototype is a client/server-side library, based on prototype. On the server side the library is powered by PHP(with GD library) that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images.

Prototype color picker

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Image Reflection

Image reflection is a common technique that designers use for a visual appeal. This jQuery plugin can create the reflection automatically for images. It is very light & faster because it uses the Canvas object in supported browsers and DirectX filters in Internet Explorer.

Features

• Light weight (Less than 2KB)
• Easy to use
• Customizable

For a stand alone reflection script, please visit http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/

jqZoom – Image magnifier for jQuery

It is a good script to zoom into some part of an image. The idea is to use two images. A smaller image which shows initially and a high resolution copy of that image which will be shown (part of the image corresponding to the mouse position).

jQPanView

This script is useful if we need to show a high resolution image in a a small area. Using this script, user can pan around the images using a small thumbnail view (like google map).

jCrop – Select an image area

It can be used to draw a selection inside an image. Then this data can be used to crop that image in server side. A very good interface that matches to professional image cropping applications. Probably it is useful in a CMS or for web based image manipulation.

imgAreaSelect

This script also serves the same purpose as JCrop but with some more customization options. Lots of examples provided.

360 degree panorama

This script creates a 360 degree panoramic view of any objects using an array of images. The script is simple to use. Shoot the photos of the object in all possible angles and give it as an array to the script. The image preloader will load all images. Can be activated in mouse move or click.

Spherical Panorama

It can create a spherical panorama from given images. It will need a lot of images and those are handled well using a good loading animation. All the process are explained well in their site (It is in French, I have given a google translated link).

jQuery Virtual Tour

This is a good script for creating panoramic views with hot spots. The animation is good and there are controls which pops up on mouse over to control the direction or pause. We only need to give the image and the hotspots can be given using image maps.

For a more simple panorama viewer (without support for hot spot), please check http://www.openstudio.fr/jquery.panorama/

Image Cube

It is a jQuery plugin that sets a division to rotate between images as if they were on the faces of a cube.

The image cube functionality can easily be added to a division with appropriate default settings. It then displays the images contained within the targetted division in a cycle every two seconds. A random rotation is chosen each time to move to the next image. Highlights and shadows are used to enhance the 3D effect.

jqPuzzle – for creating sliding puzzles

jqPuzzle lets you easily create sliding puzzles for your web page. Select an image, put it in your page, and add some magic – jqPuzzle will automagically turn it into a full-blown sliding puzzle! If you want, you can highly customize and style your sliding puzzle according to your needs. The interface is available in several languages, and you can add your own texts on the fly.

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E2 Photo Gallery

It is a simple and easy to use (provided, you’re using PHP) gallery plugin which supports thumbnail images with carousel view. It is supplied with a php file which can scan a specified folder for images and it can create the gallery automatically.

JSGallery2

It is a simple gallery plugin with support for thumbnails with paging. The transition effects are simple. The latest version is based on MooTools 1.2. There is also an older version for MooTools 1.1

Image Gallery by TutorialDog.com

It is a light weight plugin which supports thumbnails and image captions. As it uses a carousel like view for thumbnails, it can be implemented in less space.

noobSlide

NoobSlide is a multipurpose script which can also be used as a gallery. Lots of different styles are supported. It can also be used as a content slider. The animation is also good. There are lots of examples provided in their site. You can also find a version for MooTools 1.1.

UvumiTools Gallery Plugin

It is an unconventionally styled gallery. Thumbnails are listed with a zoom effect on hover. Once you click the image, the view is switched to a 3d looking carousel of thumbnails + the main image. The animations are also good.

Features

• Automatic resizing of images
• Handles broken image links
• Mouse wheel scrolling
• Support for captions with animation effect (Fancy Caption)

MooPix

MooPix is a script that is specifically written to handle Flicker images. There is support for a slide show mode and thumbnail mode.

MooPix isn’t a slideshow, it’s a way for you to access your public Flickr photos without doing PHP, Ruby, or Python situps.

PhatFusion Slideshow

This is one of the earliest image galleries available for MooTools. Still it is a neat looking gallery with thumbnails and slide show mode.

MooFlow

MooFlow is a script that emulates the famous CoverFlow of Apple’s. Interestingly it supports full screen option like a flash player which fills the browser viewable area. Mouse wheel and keyboard navigation is supported.

Features

• Easy to setup
• Automatic resizing of images with full size viewer (popup)
• Fullscreen option
• Reflections
• Can run multiple instances in same page

Slideshow 2

It is an advanced imaged gallery with excellent transition effects. It supports cross fading of images and Ken Burns effect. The scripts are separate for core functionality and different transitions so that you only need to include the transitions you want.

Features

• Excellent transitions – cross fading & Ken Burns
• Good styles
• Slideshow mode
• Auto scrolling thummbnails (Examples for vertical thumbnails provided)
• Support for image caption
• Lots of examples provided

SmoothGallery

It is another excellent script which can be used to show image galleries as well. The thumbnails are shown inside the images and auto scrollable. In the new version transition effects are also supported.

smooth gallery

• Controls & thumbnails are placed inside the main image, which enables it to be placed in a small area.
• Auto scrolling thumbnails
• Image Caption
• Images are linkable, which makes it suitable for a featured content gallery

Conclusion

When comparing features, Slide Show2 is the best script for showing an image gallery. It supports different types of transitions, customizable options and provides a lot of examples in their website.

Smooth Gallery is also good. It takes less space in a web page and can be used as a featured content slider.

Mootools Vs jQuery
In the previous post, I’ve listed 10+ image gallery plugins for jQuery. Finding plugins for both jQuery & Mootools is a fairly easy job. Also, both libraries have plugins which matches in functionality. So I think, it is just a matter of choice. If you are comfortable with jQuery use it, or use Mootools otherwise.

Anyway, I think Slideshow 2 & Smooth Gallery are excellent scripts which lacks alternative in jQuery. jQuery has CrossSlide which has transition effects similar to Slide Show 2, but it is not complete as a gallery plugin as Slide Show 2 is. And for Smooth Gallery, I couldn’t find a jQuery alternative. Hope someone will port it to jQuery.

Edit: Links corrected, missing image for Smooth Gallery added

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Here I’ve listed 10 jQuery plugins which can be used for this type of gallery. All these plugins can show images with some transition effects. I didn’t consider lightbox like (popup) scripts. But you may be interested in the following articles.

• Three lightbox clones for Mootools
• Which is the best lightbox clone for jQuery ?

Galleria

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

The core of Galleria lies in it’s smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery.

Gallerific

Features

• Smart image preloading after the page is loaded
• Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
• Support for bookmark-friendly URLs per-image
• Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)
• Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects
• Support for image captions
• Flexible configuration
• Graceful degradation when javascript is not available
• Support for multiple galleries per page

S3 Slider

It is a simple & lightweight jQuery plugin which can show images with captions. It is useful, if we want to show image slide shows without thumbnails.

Coda Slider

Though it is not limited to showing images, it is still an option to show images.

Read more

Slide Viewer

slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images

Easy Slider

This is a multipurpose sliding gallery. It can show images or text contents.

Crossfade

It supports some very advanced transition effects like Ken Burns effect. The transitions can be customized.

Innerfade

InnerFade is a small plugin for the jQuery-JavaScript-Library. It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.These elements could be anything you want, e.g. images, list-items, divs.

9. Enhance Gallery

jQuery Cycle plugin

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.

Space Gallery

Image Flow

Another image gallery that mimics apple’s coverflow animation.
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Features

• Very light weight (2kb packed)
• Follows accessibility standards
• Customizable animation speed
• Number of elements shown at a time can be customized
• Customizable skins

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Then we need to add some interactivity to forms using auto complete, dynamic validation etc.

Replacing checkbox and radio button

Checkbox and radio buttons were a big problem for designers as the implementations were different in different browsers and it could not be styled. Now we can use simple jQuery plugins to imitate the behavior of checkbox and radio buttons. And these are fully stylable using css. Most of these plugins uses images for different states of checkbox button and hence it can be customized anyway.

Recommended plugins

• http://www.protofunc.com/scripts/jquery/checkbox-radiobutton/
• http://widowmaker.kiev.ua/checkbox/

Replacing Select box

Another browser dependent thing. Some browser supports basic styling but we need more customization.  This plugin replaces select box with a normal input field styled with background image. As it is an image, it is customizable by changing the image.

http://www.brainfault.com/2008/02/10/new-release-of-jquery-selectbox-replacement/

Replacing File input fields

Again, browser dependent thing which is almost impossible to style. Using Flash or Iframe, an Ajax effect can be achieved here.

jQuery Plugins for Ajax upload

Or if you want to use normal file input field, http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html has provided a solution using javascript and CSS. But it is not perfect.

Auto complete

It is better usability to automatically suggest something that the user wants.

• http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/
• http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm

Restricting input fields

If we need some inputs in certain format, don’t rely on the user to input in that specific way. Instead restrict them to input only in that form. Less error in input.

http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/

Calendar Plugin

It is always better to show a calendar to pick the date rather than select box or text boxes. Also, user can not select an invalid date.

jQuery UI Date picker is the best calendar plugin. Also try the theme roller for customizing styles.

Form Validation

Instead of throwing errors after form submission, validating the form dynamically as the user types in and showing messages adds more interactiveness to form. User will know what is wrong as soon as he types in some thing. The best plugin to use is,

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/

Form plugin

The jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX. The main methods, ajaxForm and ajaxSubmit, gather information from the form element to determine how to manage the submit process. Both of these methods support numerous options which allows you to have full control over how the data is submitted. Submitting a form with AJAX doesn’t get any easier than this!

http://malsup.com/jquery/form/

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It is fully stylabe using CSS. Menu items can be disabled or enabled using functions.

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jQuery Impromptu is an extention to help provide a more pleasant way to spontaneously prompt a user for input. More or less this is a great replacement for an alert, prompt, and confirm. Not only does it replace these but it also allows for creating forms within these controls. This is not intended to be a modal replacement, just a quick tool to prompt user input in a fashionable way.

This is a good plugin to replace alert() and confirm() methods using callback functions. Fully stylabe using CSS. Lots of examples are shown in the site.

Suggested enhancement

Need to support draggable functionality.

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Only thing you need to make is a holder element for the controller and then call the function like

fontSize("#holder", "#content", 9, 12, 20);
// holder is the id of the element where the font size controller interface will be shown
// content is the id of the element where the font size changes will take place.
// The next three arguments are Minimum font size, Default font size and Maximum font size respectively

Yes, all done and it will automatically generate all required buttons. It also supports jquery cookie plugin. So when you open the page again, the preferred font size will be restored automatically. (Cookie plugin is not required, but recommended)

After the function is called, the controllers will be generated in the specified area like the following.

Advantages

• Small size, built on jQuery
• Fully skinnable using css
• Multiple interface can be used in the same page for two different content areas
• Support jQuery Cookie plugin for remembering the preferred font size
• Very easy to use

The logic

• The function will be called with the holder element and target element with default, maximum and minimum font size
• Create three elements for decreasing, default and increasing font size
• Style the elements using CSS so that it will be fully skinnable
• Upon clicking read the current font size for the target and calculate the new font size. Then apply it to target element
• Save the modified font size value to cookie, so that the preferred font size can be saved and restored

The CSS

We need some buttons for the backgrounds and the best places to search is Icon look, Icon Finder and Icon Let as usual. I found the above images, but you can use another or design yours.

Now we need to style the elements. Mainly we need 5 styles – Button for smaller font, default font and larger font. We need two more styles for the disabled state of buttons. (If current font size is the minimum or maximum allowed, we need to show a disabled state).

 
 
.smallFont {
	outline: none; /*for making it look nice in FF */
	background: url(images/font-down.png);
	text-indent: -9999px;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	width: 32px;
	height: 32px;
}
 
.defaultFont {
	/*if you want to hide the default font button, use display:none */
	background: url(images/font-default.png);
	text-indent: -9999px;
	outline: none;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	width: 32px;
	height: 32px;
}
 
.largeFont {
	background: url(images/font-up.png);
	outline: none;
	text-indent: -9999px;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	width: 32px;
	height: 32px;
}
 
.ldisabled,.sdisabled { /*Styles for disabled buttons*/
	opacity: 0.3;
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=30)";
	/*This is for IE8 */
	filter: alpha(opacity = 30);
}

As you can see I’ve used three background images for the three buttons. Need to set the display:block property as the buttons are of 32px height. I could have optimized the css more by applying common styles to elements. For eg: For the three styles only background is different, so it could’ve declared like the following.

 .smallFont, .defaultFont, .largeFont { 
.... /*common properties*/
}
 
.smallFont { background: url(...) } 
...

But I didn’t use that because it will be easier to declare as is now, if you want to use different sized images or different styles for each button.

If you want to have multiple styles in the same page, just use the CSS scope

For eg:

 #container1 .smallFont { ... }
#container2 .smallFont { ... }

Now for the disabled state I used same style for all buttons. Using opacity filter is the easiest way to imitate a disabled button. Here for IE8, I have used an extra style after googling around.

The jQuery function

I didn’t write it as a jQuery plugin because I didn’t find it useful to have the chainable functionality.

function fontSize(container, target, minSize, defSize, maxSize) {
	/*Editable settings*/
	var minCaption = "Make font size smaller"; //title for smallFont button
	var defCaption = "Make font size default"; //title for defaultFont button
	var maxCaption = "Make font size larger"; //title for largefont button
 
 
	//Now we'll add the font size changer interface in container
	smallFontHtml = "<a href='javascript:void(0);' class='smallFont' title='" + minCaption +"'>" + minCaption + "</a> ";
	defFontHtml = "<a href='javascript:void(0);' class='defaultFont' title='" + defCaption +"'>" + defCaption + "</a> ";
	largeFontHtml = "<a href='javascript:void(0);' class='largeFont' title='" + maxCaption +"'>" + maxCaption + "</a> ";
	$(container).html(smallFontHtml + defFontHtml + largeFontHtml);
 
	//Read cookie &amp; sets the fontsize
	if ($.cookie != undefined) {
		var cookie = target.replace(/[#. ]/g,'');
		var value = $.cookie(cookie);
		if (value !=null) {
			$(target).css('font-size', parseInt(value));
		}
	}
 
	//on clicking small font button, font size is decreased by 1px
	$(container + " .smallFont").click(function(){ 
		curSize = parseInt($(target).css("font-size"));
		newSize = curSize - 1;
		if (newSize >= minSize) {
			$(target).css('font-size', newSize);
		} 
		if (newSize <= minSize) {
			$(container + " .smallFont").addClass("sdisabled");
		}
		if (newSize < maxSize) {
			$(container + " .largeFont").removeClass("ldisabled");
		}
		updatefontCookie(target, newSize); //sets the cookie 
 
	});
 
	//on clicking default font size button, font size is reset
	$(container + " .defaultFont").click(function(){
		$(target).css('font-size', defSize);
		$(container + " .smallFont").removeClass("sdisabled");
		$(container + " .largeFont").removeClass("ldisabled");
		updatefontCookie(target, defSize);
	});
 
	//on clicking large font size button, font size is incremented by 1 to the maximum limit
	$(container + " .largeFont").click(function(){
		curSize = parseInt($(target).css("font-size"));
		newSize = curSize + 1;
		if (newSize <= maxSize) {
			$(target).css('font-size', newSize);
		} 
		if (newSize > minSize) {
			$(container + " .smallFont").removeClass("sdisabled");
		}
		if (newSize >= maxSize) {
			$(container + " .largeFont").addClass("ldisabled");
		}
		updatefontCookie(target, newSize);
	});
 
	function updatefontCookie(target, size) { //Private function for setting cookie
		if ($.cookie != undefined) { //If cookie plugin available, set a cookie
			var cookie = target.replace(/[#. ]/g,'');
			$.cookie(cookie, size);
		} 
	}
}

I think the code is self explanatory. If you’ve any doubt in code, please feel free to ask here

Usage

Include the css file, then after including jQuery include this script like the following (Don’t forget to change the path as required. Also, you need to copy the images in correct folder as specified in CSS file or edit the CSS file to make it correct.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="font-controller.css" />
<script src="jquery-1.2.6.pack.js"></script> 
<script src="font-controller.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.cookie.js"></script>

The function can be called inside a $document.ready() as usual. For eg:

fontSize("#container", "#content", 9, 12, 20);

Then inside your html create the empty container for holding the elements. Give it an ID or class, if possible ID.

<div id="container"></div> ... 
<div id="content">... Font size of this element can be controlled.... </div>

Do not copy paste the code from this page. Instead download the full demo from below link

Demo

View Demo | Download full demo

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Here are some cool color picker scripts that can be used. Some of them are written using plain javascript – means you don’t need any javascript library like jQuery, Mootools. And some of them are written specifically for jQuery, Mootools or Prototype (Here the advantage is a smaller footprint. If you’re already using a javascript library like jQuery or Mootools, use the one particularly written for that library). There are more than 10 scripts to choose from.

Plain Javascript scripts for Color picker

There were lot of scripts using plain javascript. Some are larger in size and some uses a popup window interface which is not Web 2.0 standard (It will be considered as an advertisement popup and will be blocked by most of the browsers). I selected three of them which are smaller in size and has the DHTML style popup or inine popup.

Use any of the following if you are not using a javascript library like jQuery or Mootools.

DHTML color picker from Free-color-picker.com

It can handle web safe colors and grays. Triggering can be customized in many ways. Files can be downloaded separately according to your needs. It also supports popup window. It is a small script – just around 8KB. But if you wan to show more colors, you can’t use it. Also, the license states that it should not be modified and the link to the site should not be altered.

jsColor

jscolor is JavaScript component extending standard form controls of the smooth color pickerpickerize your text fields

It is a good and very easy to use script when you want to show more colors.

Color Jack

It is the smallest of them all – just 3.5KB. Also this site has two other pickers Color Picker v2 and Color Sphere
. Choose one that matches your required style.

Others

• Color Piker by Nogray.com It is a photoshop like color picker

Color Pickers for jQuery

jQuery is a wonderful javascript library and the number of available plugins are growing rapidly. If you’re already using jQuery, choose a color picker from here.

Farbtastic color picker plug-in

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in

Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element’s value when a color is selected.
Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs to render a saturation/luminance gradient inside of a hue circle. No Flash, no pixel sized divs.

Color picker by eyecon.ro

A simple component to select color in the same way you select color in Adobe Photoshop

• Easy to use and looks good
• Powerful controls for color selection
• Easy to customize the look by changing some images

Normal color picker by www.felecan.com

It is a lightweight color picker.

jQuery color picker by Syronex

It is a simple color picker which is useful when you want to show a defined set of colors and the user should select only from them (For eg: To select a theme color in web sites).

Others

• Rudimentary jQuery color picker
• jQuery color picker by intelliance.com

Color pickers for Mootools

Moo Rainbow

mooRainbow is a powerful Javascript color picker that allows you to visually choose and use colors as a real and useful application.

Mootools color picker by Sweetvision.com

The Color Picker displays a Hue selection bar Saturation/Value selection box, Text fields for entering HSV and RGB fields. The dialog for the color picker is drag-able and there are many actions that you can attach function calls to in order to allow your application to respond to events in the Color Picker. The size of the Hue Bar and the SV Box can be set to any size using options. The elements of the Color Picker can be styled to match the design of your site.

It supports two types of interface – a popup layer type and an in-place color picker

Color pickers for Prototype

Color picker by John Dyer

It is a photoshop like color plugin built on prototype library.

Prototype color picker by Myles Eftos

It is a simple color picker which support web safe palette.

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