Lets first take a look at the XML file we are going to Parse. The XML document is saved as cd_catalog.xml.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CATALOG>
  <CD type="physcial">
    <TITLE>Maggie May</TITLE>
    <ARTIST>Rod Stewart</ARTIST>
    <COUNTRY>UK</COUNTRY>
    <COMPANY>Pickwick</COMPANY>
    <PRICE>8.50</PRICE>
    <YEAR>1990</YEAR>
  </CD>
  <CD type="physical">
    <TITLE>When a man loves a woman</TITLE>
    <ARTIST>Percy Sledge</ARTIST>
    <COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY>
    <COMPANY>Atlantic</COMPANY>
    <PRICE>8.70</PRICE>
    <YEAR>1987</YEAR>
  </CD>
  <CD type="digital">
    <TITLE>Big Willie style</TITLE>
    <ARTIST>Will Smith</ARTIST>
    <COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY>
    <COMPANY>Columbia</COMPANY>
    <PRICE>9.90</PRICE>
    <YEAR>1997</YEAR>
  </CD>
</CATALOG>

As you see this is a simple XML document of a CD Catalog. If you have never seen an XML document before I suggest you read up on it. Now lets look at the jQuery Code we will use to extract the data. I am going to post the full code and then explain what each line does. If you don’t care what each line does then feel free to copy and paste and augment the code. Anyway here is the code.

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$(document).ready(function(){
  $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "cd_catalog.xml",
    dataType: "xml",
    success: function(xml){
                  $(xml).find("CD").each(function(){
                        $("#CD").append($(this).find("ARTIST").text() + "<br />");
                  });
               }
  });
});

The output of the jQuery code would look something like this:

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Rod Stewart<br />
Percy Sledge<br />
Will Smith<br />

So now that you see the code let me explain. First you must call the $.Ajax Get Request in order to actually get the XML file. (On a side note you may also use jQuery’s $.get function to retrieve the XML document.) Click here if you don’t understand the $.Ajax Get Request. When you successfully get the cd_catalog.xml file you must call a function to process the XML. Then on Line 7 in the jQuery code $(xml).find(“CD”).each(function() is how you actually process the XML data. First you must use the .find to search all “CD” tags in the XML document then use the .each to loop through every “CD” tag that is in the XML document. Now that we are looping through the all “CD” tags, we can output the Artist Name by using the following code on line 8 $(“#CD”).append($(this).find(“ARTIST”).text() + “br/”);. We must first Append data to the div with the ID CD in the HTML document. The data that we will append to the div is as follows: $(this).find(“ARTIST”).text(). What we do here is find the tag “ARTIST” within the “CD” Node and get the text within the “ARTIST” tag. As you see its pretty simple to Parse an XML document with jQuery. But there is one more topic I want to cover and that is XML tag Attributes.

In the XML document above you can see that in the “CD” tag we have an attribute called “type”. To access an attribute you can use the code below after line 7 in the above jQuery code.

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        $(this).attr("type")

And that is it for this tutorial. I hope it will help you on your quest to become a jQuery guru. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to comment below.

• Simple javascript Accordian – The Simple JavaScript accordion script is my favorite. It is very small script at about 1kb and it requires no frameworks. It works in all browsers and it is very easy to integrate.
  
• jQuery Accordion Plugin - This jQuery Plugin creates an Accordion that allows for nested lists, definition lists, and nested divs. The plugin requiresjQuery and the dimensions plugin.
  
• jQuery Horizontal Accordion – This is another jQuery Plugin but the accordion is horizontal. It is very similar to the XBOX 360 interface. This plugin requires you use the interface plugin.
  
• MooTools Accordion – This MooTools Accordion script is very nice script that is very easy to implement. There is no additional plugins that you need to get this script to work. The one problem with this is that there is no support for this script. But you can easily figure out how to integrate by viewing the source code.
  
• Horizontal JavaScript Accordion – This script requires no JavaScript frameworks and is just 1kb. It has been tested in all major browsers. This is a great an easy script to implement.
  
• Accordion v2.0 – This accordion script is built with Prototype and Scriptaculous. This script handles both horizontal and vertical accordions. It can even have an accordion inside an accordion. You should check this out.
  
• EXT Accordion Widget – This Accordion uses the EXT JavaScript Library. Whats really cool about this accordion is that you can drag and drop the accordion slides into new positions.
  
• Spry Accordion – The Spry Accordion comes with tons of different options and effects. It is very easy to implement with Dreamweaver but if you don’t have dreamweaver it is still pretty straight forward. If you don’t have dreamweaver then you can download Spry here.
  

If you know of any other Accordion scripts that are not here please comment. Thank you for your continued support.

• Flot – Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. The focus is on easy usage , attractive plots and interactive features. With Flot you can interact with the data, look at specific data by zooming in, plot a time series, and other various options.
  
• Open Flash Chart – Open Flash Chart is a Flash charting component. It is fairly easy to setup and has classes written in PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and .Net to connect to the Chart. You can create some really nice looking Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts and etc…
  
• AmCharts – AmCharts are animated interactive flash charts. The charts include Pie Charts, Line Charts, Scatter/Bubble Charts, Bar/Column Charts, and even a stock chart. AmCharts can extract data from simple CSV or XML files, or they can read dynamic data generated with PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl and ColdFusion. All the charts are free but they have a link to AmCharts on the upper left.
  
• Emprise JavaScript Charts – Emprise JavaScript Charts is a 100% Pure JavaScript Charting Solution that requires no JavaScript frameworks. Emprise JavaScript Charts include Line, Area, Scatter, Pie, Bar charts with zooming, scaling and scrolling ability. Tested and works with all major browsers.
  
• PlotKit – PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. PlotKit works with MochiKit javascript library. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit also has great documentation.
  
• Flotr – Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework version 1.6.0.2. Flotr lets you create graphs in modern browsers with features like legend support, negative value support, mouse tracking, selection support, zoom support, event hooks, CSS styling support and much more.
  
• PHP/SWF Charts – PHP/SWF Charts is simple yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. You use PHP to gather the data and put it into flash. It supports many charts types, Line, Column, Stacked column, Floating column, 3D column, Stacked 3D column, Parallel 3D column, Pie, 3D Pie, Bar, Stacked bar, Floating bar, Area, Stacked area, Candlestick, Scatter, Polar, Mixed, Composite and Joined. These Charts have some great features like Animated transitions, Printable charts, and more.
  
• Visifire – Visifire (Powered by Silverlight) is a set of open source data visualization components. With Visifire you can create animated Silverlight Charts with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.
  
• FusionCharts – FusionCharts is a cross-browser and cross-platform flash charting component that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in.
  
• JFreeChart – JFreeChart is an open source Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display quality charts in their applications. The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert and is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart supports many different output types that includes JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and SVG. This is a great resource for Java developers.
  

If you know of any other Charting Scripts please post below.

• 15 Days of jQuery – This site has some great jQuery tutorials with example code. If you are just starting out with jQuery this is great place to start.
• – Learning jQuery is a great blog with tutorials/examples from basic to advanced skill level.
• jQuery for Designers – Has some great tutorials showing you more intermediate tutorials. jQuery For designers is a great site you should check it out.
• How jQuery Works – A great tutorial about the basics of jQuery
• jQuery Tutorials for Designers – This is a excellent post by Web Designer Wall that contains 10 visual tutorials on jQuery.
  
• jQuery in 15 minutes – This slideshow is a very good intro to jquery. I’ve embedded the slide show below.

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• jQuery Cheat Sheet – This is a great Cheat sheet that is available on your iphone or ipod and is also in png format. It goes over just about everything and is a great to have nearby.
  

If you have more tutorials that have helped you learn jQuery please comment below

ActionScript

• ActionScript Cheat Sheet – Covers everything from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 and Even Adobe AIR.

Ajax/JavaScript Frameworks

• Prototype Cheat Sheet – Detailed methods and properties of each of the modules within the Prototype JavaScript library.
• Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet – List of the Effects.
• MooTools Cheat Sheet – Details of the MooTools Library.
• jQuery Cheat Sheet – Details of the jQuery Library version 1.2.x.
• YUI Cheat Sheet – This cheat sheet is straight from Yahoo and the download link is at the bottom of the page or you can download the zip file here.

ASP

• ASP/VBScript Cheat Sheet – Everything you want or need to know about ASP and VBScript.

CSS

• CSS level 1 – Includes Fonts, Backgrounds, Text, Box, and Units
• CSS level 2 – Includes Box Model, Print, Fonts, Visual Effects, Pseudo Classes and Elements.
• CSS 2 Quick Reference Guide – Shows you examples on how to use a wide variety of classes
• CSS Cheat Sheet – Lists all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties.
• CSS Property Index – Lists all CSS Properties Alphabetically
• CSS Shorthand Guide – A fairly detailed guide of CSS Shorthand properties

C# and VB.NET

• C# and VB.NET Comparison Cheat Sheet – Cheat sheet that highlights some key syntactical differences between C# and VB.NET.
• C# Basic Reference Sheet – A Brief Cheat sheet to give you the basics of C#.
• VB.NET Basic Reference Sheet – A Brief Cheat sheet to give you the basics of VB.NET.

C++

• C++ Cheat Sheet – This Cheat Sheet shows a list of C++ Containers
• C++ Quick Reference Sheet – Is a Basic Cheat Sheet that doesn’t go that in depth.

JavaScript

• JavaScript Cheat Sheet – The JavaScript cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing methods and functions of JavaScript.
• JavaScript Quick Reference – Consists of the JavaScript and Browser Objects Quick Reference.
• Regular Expressions for JavaSript – Excerpts of the VisiBone JavaScript references

SQL

• SQL Cheat Sheet – A very Basic SQL Cheat sheet but gives you all the necessary data.
• SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Cheat Sheet to Microsoft’s SQL Server.
• MySQL Cheat Sheet – A quick reference guide for MySQL, including functions (both in MySQL and PHP), data types, and sample queries.

PHP

• PHP Cheat Sheet – This is an in depth cheat sheet for PHP.
• PHP Reference Sheet – This Sheet gives you basic functions for PHP but useful.

If you have any more to add to this list than please comment below. Also if you would like other languages added please comment below

• Yetii – Yetii is an extremely light weight tab script. It is built with no framework and is very easy to install. You can even have a tab nested within another tab.
  
• Advanced Tabs - Advanced Tabs is an EXT JS plugin that allows you to add tabs, tab resizing, and tab scrolling. The code has some very cool features.
  
• Sliding Tabs – Sliding Tabs is a mootools 1.11 plugin that shows the content slide over when you click on the tab or arrow button. It is a really neat effect.
  
• DOMTab – DOMtab is JavaScript that turns a list into a tabular content. It is very lightweight and is easy to implement. It degrades very nicely if your visitor doesn’t allow javascript. DOMtab does have some problems with divs inside the tab content but it is a great script.
  
• Coda-Slider – Coda-Slider is a jQuery Plugin that slides the content over when you click on the tab or the arrow button. It is a cool effect and is fairly easy to install on your site.
  
• Scriptaculous Tabs – Scriptaculous tabs requires the use of obviously scriptaculous and prototype. The script allows you to create interactive tabs for your site and the content box stretches as the more content you put into it.
  
• Ajax Tabs – Ajax Tabs is an easy to implement Dynamic CSS Tab. The user can add and remove tabs (and content) without refreshing the page. It is a very cool concept but just needs some work to make it even better.
  
• MooTabs – MooTabs is a tiny(3kb) class for MooTools. It’s main purpose is to help out with the creation of simple tab navigation. The newest addition to MooTabs is that it now retrieves the content via ajax. It is very easy to install and if you have MooTools than I suggest you check it out.
  
• TabView – TabView is built on Yahoo! UI library and is a good Tab navigation script. It is pretty easy to implement and will allow you to create the same effect that is on Yahoo! homepage.
  
• JavaScript Tabifier – JavaScript Tabifier converts your lists into a tabbed navigation. It is built with no framework and gracefully degrades if JavaScript is not present. With JavaScript Tabifier you can have a tab within a tab and you can use a cookie to remember which tab was selected so it remains selected when you return to the page.
  

If you have any you would like to add or have used some of the above scripts please comment below.

Below is a list of Text Editors that I found.

• TinyMCE – TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate and use. It also has very good HTML markup. I decided to Switch to this editor.
• Damn Small Rich Text Editor – DSRTE is a very small text editor script that works by creating an Iframe element. DSRTE works on top of the jQuery framework. It is very easy to implement all you need is the jQuery library, a Javascript and a CSS file. One of my favorite parts is that it has a resizable text area.
  
• jWYSIWYG – JWYSIWYG is a jQuery Plugin to editing rich HTML content on the fly. It is a very small file less than 26kb. I like this editor because it doesn’t have tons of features and it is just the basics.
  
• NicEdit – NicEdit is a WYSIWYG editor for websites. NicEdit is extremely lightweight and can be easily integrated in any site. NicEdit doesn’t have the best markup but it is very fast and doesn’t overload you with tons of features.
  
• Whizzywig – Whizzywig is a completely free web based text editor. It is written in javascript and is very easy to implement. Whizzywig runs very smoothly and is cross browser compatible.
  
• widgEditor – widgEditor is an easily installed, easily customizable WYSIWYG editor for simple content. It is written in javascript and is very simple. It doesn’t have that many features but it is very fast and works well.
  
• sLedit -sLedit is an in place rich text editor using Mootools. The code works very fast. I really enjoy this script because it is an edit in place text editor. You must check this out. The only thing that is a bummer is the installation is annoying.
  
• Yahoo! UI Text Editor – YUI Text Editor is a text editor that is based on the Yahoo UI library. It has many different options and features that you can choose from. You can go from a very simple and basic text editor to an advanced editor. You can even customize it.
  

If you have any more that you use please comment below. Thanks.

• Password Strength Meter like Google – This script is built with no framework. It works based on a point value that as you use different variations of letters, numbers and symbols your password will be stronger. This script is completely free to use on any project you wish.
  
• Password Meter – Password Meter is built on top of the EXT JavaScript library. It has a very nice animated meter that goes up as you type. It does all of the normal checking of the different variations of upper/lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
  
• Password Strength Meter – This Password Strength Meter is based on a point system. Its main goal is to help the end user with a stronger password. It is very detailed and it might be over detailed but it is one of the best I’ve seen. It is also written with no framework.
  
• ColdFusion Password Strength – This Password Strength meter works fairly well. When you first type in the password field it tells you what you need to make a strong password. Since I haven’t seen another ColdFusion Password Strength scripts I think this would be a nice add for ColdFusion Developers.
  
• Prototype/Scriptaculous Password Strength Meter – This script is written with prototype and scriptaculous. It is a very strong password strength script works very similar to all the others. It uses a point system to calculate the strength of your password.
  
• JQuery Password Strength Meter – Password Strength Meter is a jQuery plug-in that provides a smart algorithm to detect a passwords strength. The Password strength works on a point structure that if you pass a certain test than more points will be added and in turn your password will be more secure.
  
• Another JQuery Password Strength Meter – JQuery password strength meter is a small plugin to jQuery that provides an easy way to show the strength of a user’s (intended) password. It is very easy to implement and I think you should check it out.
  

If you have any more scripts please comment below.

• fValidator – is built over MooTools v1.1 and it supports Multiple forms per page supported. fValidator is compatible and tested in Internet Explorer, Firefox (and its mozilla friends), Opera and Safari
• FormCheck – Works with these types of fields input (text, radio, checkbox),textarea, select. FormCheck is built with MooTools v1.1
  

jQuery Framework

• jQuery Plugin: Validation – is Built with the jQuery 1.2.2+. It works with all the standard form inputs.
• Simple jQuery form validation – This form validator is pretty easy to implement and is built with jQuery. Since the link doesn’t have a download you can download it here http://www.willjessup.com/sandbox/jquery/form_validator/val.js
  
  

Prototype Framework

• LiveValidation – First I want to let you know that this has two versions a prototype version and a standalone version. The Prototype version works great with prototype. LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It is tested and works in most modern browsers.
• JSValidate – JSValidate is a form validator that uses prototype and scriptaculous to bring you a very easy Javascript form validator. The only drawback is that its still in its beta versions.
• Field validation with Prototype – A robust Javascript form validation library built with prototype and scriptaculous. It has a number of tests built-in but is extensible to include your custom validation checks.
  

Spry Framework

• Validation Widget – This Validator works fairly well. It is very easy to implement with Dreamweaver CS3. If you are not using Dreamweaver than you can download their Javascript elements. The only problem I have with this is that every input element has its own external Javascript and CSS.

No Framework

• Clean Form Validation – Clean Form Validation is a very simple Javascript form validation and it is very easy to implement.
• Validate.js – Validate.js is able to validate all sorts of data. It is different from the rest of this list because of it has more ways to validate data, some of which could come in handy.
• LiveValidation – The standalone version works just as well as the prototype version. LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful.
  

If you have any to add to this list then please comment below.

After looking for awhile for a script that will crop your image in the browser I decided to put a list together. I found various types of scripts that will accomplish this. The list below is a list of image cropping scripts.

1. cfImageCropper – This script is written in Coldfusion. The Demo of this script works very well and the code is very simple to implement.
2. jsCropper – This javascript image cropping script is based on the Prototype JavaScript framework and script.aculo.us. jsCropper is one of my favorite copping script. It is very easy to use and its a great unobtrusive script. jsCropper has tons of great features you should check it out.
3. mooImageCrop – mooImageCrop is based on the mootools framework and php. It is very easy to implement.
4. Image Crop – This is a great script written in Javascript and PHP. It requires the install of ImageMagick server component.
5. Ajax Image Editor – Is a very powerful image editor script that allows you to crop, resize, and rotate the image. It is fairly easy to implement and it isn’t written with any frameworks.
6. Flash Image Crop – Is a very nice flash image crop tool written in Actionscript and PHP. The only problem I have with this script is that you have to use the space bar to accept the cropped area and not the enter key. But overall it works very well.
7. Flash Based Cropping tool – This tool is also written in Actionscript and PHP is a very nice script. You can also resize the image with this script.
8. MooCrop -MooCrop is an Image Cropping utility that uses mootools javascript framework.  MooCrop works very fast and you can even edit the color of the mask.

As more cropping tools become available I will be adding to this list. If you have more to add now then please comment below.

The Amberjack JavaScript library is lightweight (~4K), stable, LGPL licensed, browser compatible, set up in 2 minutes & super-easy to customize.

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To create the gradient you must first add the Javascript to the top of the page.

<script type="text/javascript" src="gradient.js"></script>

Then add the following class to any element you wish.

<class="gradient ffffff 000000 vertical">

You can change anything after gradient. You may also change vertical to horizontal to make a horizontal gradient and change any of the colors to any color you want.

Tablecloth Features:

• Tablecloth will highlight rows or columns (or both).
• Tablecloth adds selected state on click. Based on preferences it then selects rows or columns (or both). Unselect elements by clicking anywhere on the page.
• It leaves room for you to modify the script for your own use.