7 Best Duration Pickers In JavaScript (2021 Update)

What Is Duration Picker?

A duration picker allows the user to select a duration representing how long something lasts, from beginning to end.

It typically provides a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to pick a duration (in days, hours, minutes, seconds) between two times and dates.

The Best Duration Picker

In this post, you will find out the 7 best jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript plugins to quickly implement a duration picker on your next web project. Have fun with it.

Originally Published Aug 20 2020, updated Sep 15 2021

1. Calculate Duration Between 2 Times - differenceHours

A minimal jQuery plugin which compares the difference between 2 times and calculates/displays the duration in hours and minutes on the page.

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2. Set Duration In Days, Hours And Minutes - durationPicker.js

A lightweight and configurable duration picker plugin that automatically calculates the duration (in seconds) between two dates & times.

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3. User-friendly Duration Picker Plugin With jQuery - timesetter

timesetter is a jQuery duration & time picker plugin which allows the user to pick duration in hours and minutes with increment / decreament buttons and keyboard interactions.

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4. Easy Duration Picker In Vanilla JavaScript – html-duration-picker.js

A pure JavaScript duration picker that allows the user to pick duration (in hours, minutes, seconds) in a normal input field.

[Demo] [Download]

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5. Lightweight Duration Picker Plugin For jQuery and Semantic UI

A lightweight jQuery duration / time / date picker plugin for Semantic UI that allows to pick duration in days, hours, minutes, seconds from a popover dropdown.

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6. Tiny JavaScript Library For Selecting Duration – DurationPickerMaker

A user-friendly duration (total seconds) picker written in vanilla JavaScript.

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7. Minimal Duration Picker Plugin For jQuery and Bootstrap

A jQuery & Bootstrap plugin that converts a normal text field into a duration picker allowing the user to set a duration in time.

[Demo] [Download]

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More Resources:

Seeking more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome duration pickers on the web & mobile? See jQuery Duration Picker and JavaScript Duration Picker sections for more details.

See Also:

• 10 Best Date And Timer Pickers In Vanilla JavaScript
• 10 Best Date And Time Picker JavaScript Plugins
• 10 Best Date Picker Libraries For Angular.js
• 10 Best Date Picker Components For Vue.js