Stuff / Tools
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YUIDomCollapse - turn any element into a show and hide trigger
YUIDomCollapse allows you to turn any element into a trigger to show and hide the following element by adding a CSS class. It supports bookmarking and smooth animation using the YUI.
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DOMinclude - Replace Pop-Ups with dynamically included layers
DOMinclude is an answer for all these developers who are asked to use a pop-up to show an HTML document or an image and just don't want to any longer. Instead of a pop-up DOMinclude generates an automatically positioned layer with the file content. You can define the whole look and feel of the layer in CSS and configure the script in an external config file.
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DomTab - Tabbed interfaces via DOM and CSS
(New Version 3.1415927 March 2006!) domTab is a Javascript that turns a navigation list linked to anchored elements into a tabbed interface. It loops through all the links of the navigation, adds the necessary event handlers and hides all the elements but the first one. If the elements have a link back to the menu, domTab removes these for you.
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Unobtrusive JavaScript self training course
The Unobtrusive JavaScript self training course teaches you how to create cleaner, more accessible and easier to maintain JavaScript. For a small donation you can also get a print version of the course material.
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PureDomExplorer - an unobtrusive tree navigation script
(New Version 3.0 January 2006!) PureDomExplorer(pde) is a script that turns a nested list into a collapseable and expandable explorer/tree navigation.
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DomCollapse - accessible collapsible and expandable page sections
DomCollapse creates accessible collapsible and expandable sections of your web sites. Users without JavaScript get one long document whereas others can expand and collapse what they want to read. Much like this site.
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DomNews - a DHTML scroller that doesn't suck
DomNews is a DHTML newsticker / upscroller that is trying to be a bit cleaner than all the others. If you have a chance to avoid tickers, do it, if not, this may be an option.
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EasyNav - keep navigation easy to maintain
EasyNav is a PHP script that takes a nested HTML list in a template file and automatically highlights the current page. Furthermore you can have different navigations dependent on the ID of the list's UL element.
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DynGallery - a dynamic picture gallery via CSS and DOM
Dyngallery allows you to show your pictures without reloading the page. Users without JavaScript will get the images opening in the same window, but high end users get a better experience. This is an article explaining the ins and outs with code examples.
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DomSlides - Yet another standards based presentation slide system
DOMSlides turns an HTML document into presentation slides via Unobtrusive JavaScript. Readers without JavaScript will see one HTML page with content split up into headings and content. Readers with JavaScript can navigate the slides either via previous and next links, the cursor up and cursor down keys or a table of contents
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EasyCMS - A web site creation and maintenance tool
EasyCMS is a tool to help you or your clients create and maintain a web site. All you need to start your web site is an HTML template and a sitemap. Once these are defined, you can edit, save and generate pages directly on the server without any need to FTP.
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YADM - Yet Another Dynamic Menu
YADM is an accessible DHTML dropdown/flyout/explorer solution with complete separation of CSS and Javascript
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DomTableEnhance - create souped up striped rollover tables
DomTableEnhance turns data tables into striped data tables with rollover effects on the rows by adding and removing CSS classes dynamically.
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Thumb-o-Matic - Display images without reloading the page
Thumb-O-Matic allows you to display pictures in a web page without leaving the page. The images are loaded into a newly generated element.
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Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP
This script allows users to preview images before loading them with a dynamically added preview link. If your PHP installation supports it, it also generates the thumbnails on the fly.
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About
Start of pageThis is a collection of scripts, tools and software add-ons written by Christian Heilmann for you to use, enjoy and learn from.
All of the things here are free to use for personal web sites and free resources, however, if you want to use anything for commercial purposes, please contact me so that we can haggle (bring a beard).
You are not allowed to change or resell anything you find here without my written consent. This is not me being picky, I just don't want other people to harvest what I planted or even mess up and me getting the blame. Sorry, it has happened a lot in the past.
Now go and see if there is something here you find useful.
I am never unhappy about people showing me their gratitude in fiscal form, either, that is why I put a paypal donation link here, too.
Waste Basket
Start of pageOnlinetools.org has been around for years, and during these a lot of scripts and tools have been published. All the ones you find on this site via search engines or old links and are not featured in the tools list can be considered:
- Obsolete
- Unsupported
- Rubbish
Ok, some of them might not be rubbish, but I don't have the time to deal with them any longer, so please don't bother asking for changes or fixes.
Contact
Start of pageI had a splendid contact form here, but I cannot be bothered any longer to offer it as all I got was spam. So please send me an email instead to onlinetoolsorg@gmail.com where all that rubbish gets filtered out.

