10 Best Floating Label Solutions For Better Form UX (2024 Update)

What Is Floating Label?

Floating Label (float label pattern) is a modern UI/UX design concept that has been applied to most operating systems (like iOS & Android) and development frameworks (like Bootstrap).

In general, it floats the label (or placehold text) up above the input after the user focuses on your form field or enters a value. This can be helpful in createing a nice, clean and readable HTML form on your web project.

The Best Floating Label Solution

There are tons of solutions for floating labels on the web today. Here I have collected 10 best JavaScript and Pure CSS solutions to help you create user-friendly floating input labels in your modern form design. Enjoy.

Originally Published June 23 2020, updated Feb 26 2024

Table of contents:

• jQuery Floating Label Plugins
• Vanilla JS Floating Label Libraries
• Pure CSS Floating Label Solutions

Best jQuery Sticky Sidebar Plugins

Floating Labels For Bootstrap 5/4 Form Controls

A CSS/SCSS library that adds floating labels to Bootstrap 5 or Bootstrap 4 form controls like input, textarea, and select.

[Demo] [Download]

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Transform Bootstrap 5/4 Form Labels Into Floating Labels - Material-style Inputs

A simple, lightweight jQuery plugin for creating Material Design style inputs that transform the Bootstrap 5/4 form label into floating labels when the text fields are focused or clicked.

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jQuery Floating Placeholder Text Plugin - Placeholder Label

A jQuery input placeholder enhancement plugin that displays a floating top aligned label containing placeholder text when you're typing.

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iOS Style Float Label Pattern In jQuery - Slidinput

Yet another jQuery implementation of the iOS Style Float Lable Pattern that floats the placeholder value above the input when your user starts typing or moves the focus to the text field.

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jQuery Plugin For Text Field Float Label - floatlabels.js

A jQuery plugin to create an animated text label floating within the input text field when the user starts typing

[Demo] [Download]

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Best Vanilla JS Floating Label Libraries

Pure JavaScript Float Label Pattern For Form Fields – float-labels.js

Just another JavaScript plugin for creating the float label pattern on form fields that support input field, textarea and even select elements. Fully customizable via JavaScript and SCSS.

[Demo] [Download]

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Float Label Pattern Implemented In JavaScript – Floatl

A simple, dependency-free JavaScript plugin that lets you implement the familiar Float Label Pattern in form fields (input and textarea) to improve user experience.

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Pure CSS Floating Label Solutions

Animated Floating Input Placeholder In Pure CSSS

A pure CSS implementation of the float label pattern that moves the placeholder to the top of the input field while typing. Inspired by Gmail login page.

[Demo] [Download]

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Pure CSS Floating Labels For Text Fields

With pure CSS and CSS3 transitions, we can create animated & floating labels when a text field is populated with text.

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Floating Input Placeholder In Pure CSS

A pure CSS implementation of the Float Lable Pattern as seen in Android & iOS.

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More Resources:

Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create floating labels on the web & mobile? See jQuery Floating Label and JavaScript/CSS Floating Label sections for more details.