AjaxRain is one of the popular web design resources and library for designers to finding best of JavaScript, AJAX and DHTML components on the web. These examples and demos can be downloaded for your own personal use. You can suggest items to be included in the AjaxRain directory as well. Each example will take you to the original source page. You can also signup to be member and post comment, add to favorites or rate each resource.

And latest AjaxRain has a major facelift that includes a new UI, a revamped home page with the latest scripts, a section for popular scripts and feeds from delicious, digg and Ajaxian at sidebar. Check out the new AjaxRain and get your collection of AJAX scripts.

The overlay information window is popular and usable on many websites. jqModal is a lightweight, powerful and flexible jQuery Javascript framework for display notices, dialogs, showing alert, giving tips, insert media content or modal windows in web browsers. The plugin is released under MIT license and have fun with it for your next web design project.

The Main Features:

• Inline or remote window content;
• Modal-in-modal and multiple independent modal support;
• DOM element events are preserved;
• Translator friendly;
• Designer friendly, abstracted HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Support for drag & drop and resizing;
• Extendable through callbacks to make anything like gallery slideshow.

LiveValidation is a open source Javascript library built for giving users Ajax type live validation information and feed back when they fill out forms. The naming conventions and parameters of the validations are similar to those found in the Ruby on Rails framework. The Javascript saves your time because you are instantly aware of the error as you type it. Live Validation is supported by all of the popular web browsers on the net.

The latest version LiveValidation 1.2 has been released for even more control and flexibility, check out the documentation for usage and source code.

Get it right Live Validation here!

EditArea is a free JavaScript source code editor. It is designed to edit source code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight for small text. This editor is compatible with major modern web browsers and released under LGPL license. Click here to see the live demo.

• Easy to integrate, only one script include and one function call
• Tabulation support (allow to write well formated source code)
• Search and replace with regexp
• Customizable real-time syntax highlighting
• Auto-indenting new lines
• Line numerotation
• Multilanguage support
• Possible PHP gzip compression
• Allow multiple instances
• Full screen mode
• Possible plugin integration
• Possible save and load callback functions
• Possible dynamic content management

Accordion javascript allows areas of content to be hidden and then activated and shown using a mouse click. It’s widely used on sites where are tight on space or need lots of options on navigation menu.

Stickman Labs Accordion v2.0 Javascript library is a lightweight accordion that is built with Scriptaculous, very easy to use, fast, cross-browser and standards compliant. The script handles nested vertical accordions as well as horizontal, and will also dynamically resize on content added real time.

Stickman Labs Accordion is open source, released under the MIT License, so feel free to do anything you want with it.