Create an ASP.NET TextBox Watermark Effect using jQuery

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery. In case you don't know about jQuery, it is a "write less, do more" Javascript library. It has many Ajax and Javascript features that allow you to enhance user experience and semantic coding. Since these tutorials are focused on jQuery, I'm not going to get into the details of the CSS.

In this tutorial, I'm going to share how to create a simple modal window with jQuery. It selects all the anchor tags with name attribute set to "modal" and grab the DIV #id defined in the href and displays it as a modal window. jQuery has made everything so simple, be sure to check out the demonstrations, examples I made. It looks good :)

If you're using the jQuery UI CSS Framework to design an entire interface, you may find that one theme is not enough. This quick tutorial will highlight a new feature in the jQuery UI Download Builder which allows you to easily use multiple themes on a single page.

Portlet is a java-technology-based web component desciribed in JSR 186.JSR 168 Portlet APIs and request processing is not suitable for Ajax. If we want to use ajax in a portlet, jQuery is one of the best choices. jQuery is an amazing JavaScript library that makes it easy to create wonderful web effects in just a few lines of code and it is a great library for developing AJAX based application. It has a lot of features for css manupilation, effects ,events etc. Best of it, it is very simple to use, and there are tons of tutorials. There is also a jquery-portlet library for adding namespaces to JQuery for multiple portlets displayed on the same page. Also there are many plugins for jQuery. One of my favorite is the jqGrid for manipulating tables and data grids.

jQuery is something really wonderful for designers which gives functionality to the web sites and i think it really attracts visitors of the sites.Yesterday i've collected 40 jQuery plugins which you will like probably.They are all free and you can learn how to integrate from the sources.

Here are the 40 Free jQuery plugins with tutorials and How Tos'

Some videos on YouTube have a cool feature called "Turn the lights down". Basically, when you turn lights down, the entire page darkens and let you watch video as if you are in the cinema. This tutorial will show you how to implement this simple effect.

In my previous article "Labels in form layouts" I wrote about how I have implemented "underlined labels" on web application forms. However, due to complexity of web appications I developed I often needed to find a way to focus a user on a current context. When I discovered jQuery I decided to use it because of its powerful features.