kevinchappell/formBuilder

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2711 stars · 1420 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

formBuilder is a jQuery plugin providing a drag-and-drop interface for building web forms entirely client-side. Its companion plugin formRender renders the created form templates, with JSON/XML data export and support for 35 languages.

Use cases

• build forms with drag and drop in a browser
• let admins create custom form templates for a website
• render form templates created by users on the front-end
• add a visual form editor to a jQuery app
• create multilingual forms with translated field labels
• save and re-use form definitions as JSON or XML

When to choose

• your app already uses jQuery and needs an embeddable form builder
• you need a fully client-side form editor with no backend dependency
• you want a mature plugin with many options, action methods, and translations
• you need to separate form building (admin) from form rendering (front-end)

When to avoid

• your stack is React/Vue/Angular without jQuery and you prefer a native component
• you need server-side form processing or storage out of the box
• you want a full form backend with submissions, emails, and analytics
• you are starting a new project and want to avoid jQuery dependencies

Facets

plugin · maturity active

form-handling ui-components frontend-framework web-development frontend web-design browser jquery-plugin form-builder drag-and-drop form-render client-side translatable javascript nodejs

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