12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms
Forms are part of almost every website. Whether it’s a simple contact form or a complex sign-up form, filling one out is usually a mundane task. When possible, you should try to make form completion for the user easier and more enjoyable. Here are 12 jQuery plugins that can help you enhance your forms.
Password Strength
Password Strength shows the strength of you passwords by telling you how long time it would take to brute force them. It tries to calculate how many possibilities the hacker needs to try to guess your password.
Dropdown Check List
The Dropdown Check List jQuery widget transforms a regular select html element into a dropdown checkbox list.
Autocomplete
Autocomplete gives the user the ability to quickly find and select some value, leveraging searching and filtering.
Ajax Fancy Capcha
Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers.
Highlight
Highlight increases usability by highlighting elements as you interact with the page. Its primary use is for forms, but it can also be used for tables, lists, or any element you specify.
Uniform
Uniform is a plugin for jQuery that lets you style select, radio, and checkboxes however you desire.
jqTransform
jqTransform is a jQuery styling plugin wich allows you to skin form elements.
boxy
Boxy is a flexible, Facebook-style dialog box for jQuery with support for dragging and size tweening.
jQuery Validation
jQuery Validation is a plugin that give you many form validating options.
Masked Input
Masked Input allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc).
Uploadify
Uploadify is a jQuery plugin that allows the easy integration of a multiple (or single) file uploads on your website.
mcDropdown
mcDropdown allow users to select from a complex hierarchical tree of options.
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24 comments
Degas
November 17, 2009Excelent Resources-
Binyamin
November 18, 2009+1
designfollow
November 17, 2009very useful
thank you
Webstandard-Team
November 18, 2009Very nice collection! If you need some more validation-Plugins, don’t miss “Validate your forms” (jQuery, Mootools, Prototype)!
pitcha
November 18, 2009very useful
Jerusalem
November 18, 2009Bookmarked!!
gr8pixel
November 19, 2009Excellent post. I’ve been looking for a good jquery styling plugin to use for a form! Cheers..
BooshMedia
November 20, 2009Cheers for this, I’m sure some of these plugins will come in handy for future web projects that come our way
Graphicdragons Creative
November 21, 2009Awesome resources. we appreciate the blog.
wien
November 22, 2009thanks for sharing this
GIVISION | Jiri Mocicka
November 23, 2009really nice collection guys
Vikram
November 24, 2009Really nice collection!
izdelava spletnih strani
December 10, 2009Very usefull collections but simply doesn’t have the time to check them all.
Jackie
December 24, 2009Excellant Post. I am really impress with Jquery power
Jessy Wu
January 11, 2010nice collection. bookmarked!!!
denbagus
February 10, 2010thank you for information about jquery forms
Cubism Designs
March 11, 2010Thanks god i got it, as i am in need of autocomplete for one of my project and here it is nice collection of useful stuff.
Andrew Conlan
March 26, 2010Thanks for the great collection
Jasmine Hegman
June 30, 2010Awesome plugins! Thanks for sharing!!
Rali Madhu
August 17, 2010Super Resources.
Business Management
May 23, 2011Nice collection of Jquery Forms…. Checkbox and Radio button plugins is very good.
Fahad
February 23, 2012Uniform link is redirecting to josh blog, cant find the demo there
Ram Narendran
March 1, 2012Awesome!! Too easy to implement!!
Lucian
December 21, 2012Just used the jqTransform. Very good resources!.