<ul class="accordion">
	<li>
		<div class="heading">Lorem ipsum dolor</div>
		<div class="content">
			Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
		</div>
	</li>
</ul>

//accordion
$('.accordion .content').hide();

$('.accordion .heading').click(function(){
	$(this).siblings('.content').slideToggle('fast');
	$(this).parent().toggleClass('active');
	$(this).parent().siblings().children('.content:visible').slideUp('fast');
	$(this).parent().siblings().children('.content:visible').parent().removeClass('active');
});

See demo here.

I had to find a quick and easy way to toggle between two functions… so here it is:

var x = 0;
$('#toggle-btn').click(function(e){
	if( x == 1 ){
		//console.log('even');
		$(this).removeClass('clicked');
		x = 0;
	} else {
		//console.log('odd');
		$(this).addClass('clicked');
		x = 1;
	}
	e.preventDefault();
});

See demo here.

function insertCount(slide_curr,slide_count){
	$('#slide-counter').html('<strong>'+ (slide_curr + 1) +'</strong>/'+ slide_count);
};

var slider = $('#slideshow').bxSlider({
	auto: true,
	pager: false,
	onSliderLoad: function (){
		var slide_count = slider.getSlideCount();
		var slide_curr = slider.getCurrentSlide();
		insertCount(slide_curr,slide_count);
	},
	onSlideNext: function (){
		var slide_count = slider.getSlideCount();
		var slide_curr = slider.getCurrentSlide();
		insertCount(slide_curr,slide_count);
	},
	onSlidePrev: function (){
		var slide_count = slider.getSlideCount();
		var slide_curr = slider.getCurrentSlide();
		insertCount(slide_curr,slide_count);
	}
});

Here you can find a demo.
Note that this is just a rough method, I’m sure it can be done in a more efficient way… maybe when I’ll have more time.

pagerAnchorBuilder: function(idx, slide) {
	if (idx < 10) {
		return '<li><a href="#">0' + (idx+1) + '</a></li>';
	} else {
		return '<li><a href="#">' + (idx+1) + '</a></li>';
	}

<div class="select-wrapper">
    <select>
        <option selected="selected" value="1">Option 1</option>
        <option value="2">Option 2</option>
        <option value="3">Option 3</option>
        <option value="4">Option 4</option>
        <option value="5">Option 5</option>
    </select>
</div>

.select-wrapper {
  position: relative;
  width: 215px;
  height: 30px;
  padding: 0 25px 0 0;
  margin: 0;
  border: 1px solid #0D5995;
  overflow: hidden;
  background: url(select-arrow.png) no-repeat right center transparent;
}

select {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  opacity : 0;
  width: 240px;
  height: 30px;
  padding: 5px 0;
  border: none;
  background: transparent !important;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
}

.select-wrapper span {
  display: block;
  width: 210px;
  height: 30px;
  line-height: 30px;
  padding: 0 0 0 5px;
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('select').after('<span>' + $('option:selected', this).text() + '</span>');
  
  $('select').click(function(event) {
    $(this).siblings('span').remove();
    $(this).after('<span>' + $('option:selected', this).text() + '</span>');
  });
})

See the demo.

If you have “Prev / Next” controls on the cycle slideshow, then you will stumble upon an annoying situation: When you cycle through the slides with the cycle controls, and reach the last visible thumbnail in carousel, you will have to use the carousel controls to go to the current slide’s thumb; to avoid this i used the cycle’s ‘onPrevNextEvent’ callback to navigate through the carousel in the same time you cycle through the slides.

You will need:

1. jQuery

2. Cycle plugin

3. any jquery carousel you want ( i have used jCarousel lite )

Make the markup as you want, and adapt the jQuery code to it.

$('#slideshow').cycle({
    fx: 'scrollHorz',
    speed: 'fast',
    timeout: 0,
    prev: '#prev',
    next: '#next',
    nowrap: 1,
    pager: '#slide-pager ul',
    pagerAnchorBuilder: function(idx, slide) {
        // return selector string for existing anchor
        return '#slide-pager ul li:eq(' + idx + ') a';
    },
    onPrevNextEvent: function(dir, id, el) {
        if (dir === true) {
		if (id >= 3) { //replace '3' with your number of visible elements
			$('#slide-pager_next').click();
		}
        }
        else {
		if (id >= 1) {
			$('#slide-pager_prev').click();
		}
        }
    }
});

$("#slide-pager").jCarouselLite({
    btnNext: "#slide-pager_next",
    btnPrev: "#slide-pager_prev",
    circular: false,
    visible: 3
});

See the demo here.

For example:

<div>
     <h4>first</h4>
     <p>lorem ipsum ...</p>
     <h4>second</h4>
     <h4>third</h4>
     <h4>forth</h4>
     <div>lorem ipsum ...</div>
     <h4>fifth</h4>
     <!-- here end our first set -->
     <h4>first</h4>
     <h4>second</h4>
     <h2>lorem ipsum ...</h2>
     <h4>third</h4>
     <span>lorem ipsum ...</span>
     <h4>forth</h4>
     <h4>fifth</h4>
     <!-- here end our 2nd set -->
</div>

and we want that the first h4 in the first set have same styles as the first h4 in the second and so on, of course our h4′s are not grouped, but they are scattered between other elements, and other h4′s can be added in the future.

If we have a way to distinguish our elements from the other then we can make a short script with jQuery to add classes.

For a group of five css classes that will repeat after a number ( for this example we took, n = 5 ), this means that our h4′s from 1 to 5 will have same classes with the h4′s from 6 to 10, and so on; for this we will use something that in math is called ‘modulo’, basically gives us the remaining of the division of two numbers, and as we can get the index of our element we can see which position has in our set ( in this case of 5 ).

$('div h4').each(function(index) {

	if(index%5 == 0){
		$(this).addClass('first');
	} else if(index%5 == 1){
		$(this).addClass('second');
	} else if(index%5 == 2){
		$(this).addClass('third');
	} else if(index%5 == 3){
		$(this).addClass('forth');
	} else if(index%5 == 4){
		$(this).addClass('fifth');
	}
});

the result would be:

<div>
     <h4 class="first">first</h4>
     <p>lorem ipsum ...</p>
     <h4 class="second">second</h4>
     <h4 class="third">third</h4>
     <h4 class="forth">forth</h4>
     <div>lorem ipsum ...</div>
     <h4 class="fifth">fifth</h4>
     <!-- here end our first set -->
     <h4 class="first">first</h4>
     <h4 class="second">second</h4>
     <h2>lorem ipsum ...</h2>
     <h4 class="third">third</h4>
     <span>lorem ipsum ...</span>
     <h4 class="forth">forth</h4>
     <h4 class="fifth">fifth</h4>
     <!-- here end our 2nd set -->
</div>

For example this HTML:

<div>
   <a href="#">Some Link</a>
</div>

you want to apply some styles to the <div> ( some background color for example ), and you can achieve this by using some ugly css selectors, but sure you will stumble upon some cross-browser problems, so you better use some simple jQuery manipulation.

$('a').mouseover(function (){
	$(this).parent().addClass('hover');
}).mouseout(function (){
	$(this).parent().removeClass('hover');
});

and now you can use the .hover class to style the <div>.

Here is the markup,

<ul id="slideshow">
      <li>
           <img src="path-to-slide1.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" />
      </li>
      <li>
           <img src="path-to-slide2.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" />
      </li>
     ... etc
 </ul>

and the js,

$('#slideshow').cycle({
     fx: 'fade',
     speed: 'slow',
     timeout: 3000,
     before: function(){
           $(this).parent().find('li.current').removeClass();
     },
      after: function(){
           $(this).addClass('current');
     }
});

I still don’t think this is the best approach to this problem, but it works, and if you know a better way, please leave a comment.

Here you will find a demo, to see it in action.

With nothing to do, I remembered the failure with the checkbox tree, and I started re-thinking it. With nothing else on my mind, took me very short time to figure my mistakes; …so now i will update this post and the demo. Of course my opinion about checkboxtree jQuery plugin remains the same, but if you don’t want to use an entire plugin, then you can always use the code here.

After some try & error, I come up with the following code :

Below is the new improved and corrected code.

(function($){

$('ul#checkboxes input[type="checkbox"]').each (
 function () {
  $(this).bind('click change', function (){
   if($(this).is(':checked')) {
    $(this).siblings('ul').find('input[type="checkbox"]').attr('checked', 'checked');
    $(this).parents('ul').siblings('input[type="checkbox"]').attr('checked', 'checked');
   } else {
    $(this).siblings('ul').find('input[type="checkbox"]').removeAttr('checked', 'checked');
   }
  });
 }
);

})(jQuery);

you can see it in action here. (updated demo, with the new code).

I also found this checkboxtree jQuery plugin . I gave it a try, and worked perfectly, and you just have to write:

$('ul#checkboxes').checkboxTree({ });

and you will have a checkboxtree. This plugin has a lot of options, that you will find on the plugin homepage.

I made a simple demo using the plugin, that you can see it here, but you can see a lot more here.

$('textarea, input:text').bind('focus click', function(){
		if (this.value == this.defaultValue) {
		this.value = '';
		}
	}).bind('blur', function(){
		if (this.value == '') {
		this.value = this.defaultValue;
		}
	});

Note that this script uses jQuery so in order to work you’ll need to have jQuery installed.

To make all clear here is a demo.

The script adds a html <div> at the end of the <body> tag, and as you hover the specified elements it get’s the title attribute and include it in the <div id=”tooltip”>, the last part of the script is what makes the tooltip move along with mouse cursor.

The nice part is that you can make your tooltip look however you want with CSS.

<ul id="links">
 <li>
   <a href="#" title="This is one">One</a>
 </li>
 <li>
   <a href="#" title="This is two">Two</a>
 </li>
 <li>
   <a href="#" title="This is three">Three</a>
 </li>
 <li>
   <a href="#" title="This is four">Four</a>
 </li>
 <li>
   <a href="#" title="This is five">Five</a>
 </li>
</ul>

#tooltip {
 padding: 10px 15px;
 position: absolute;
 font-size: 14px;
 color: #4E4E4E;
 background: #C4E424;
 z-index: 10;
}

(function($){
	$('body').append('<div id="tooltip"></div>');
	$('#tooltip').hide();
	var $tooltip = $('#tooltip');
    $('ul#links a').each(function(){
        var $this = $(this),
			$title = this.title;
			
        $this.hover(function(){
			this.title = '';
			$tooltip.text($title).show();
        }, function(){
			this.title = $title;
			$tooltip.text('').hide();
        });
		
		$this.mousemove(function(e){
			$tooltip.css({
				top: e.pageY - 10,
				left: e.pageX + 20
			});
		});
    });
})(jQuery);

Here is a demo