10 Best Form Builder Plugins To Generate Forms From JSON Data (2026)

What Is Form Builder

A Form Builder (also known as Form Creator, Form generator) allows the developers to dynamically generate form controls (text fields, select boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes) from structured data model defined using JSON Schema.

It also has the ability to encode a set of form controls as a JSON object for manipulation and submission when needed.

The Best Form Builder In JavaScript

Here is a list of 10 best (top downloaded) form builders (jQuery plugins and Vanilla JS libraries) from which you can choose for your next web/mobile project. We did the research for you and hope you like it.

Originally Published Jul 26 2019, updated Jan 28 2026

Table of contents:

• jQuery Form Builder Plugins
• Vanilla JavaScript Form Builder Plugins

jQuery Form Builder Plugins:

jQuery Plugin For Online Drag & Drop Form Builderm

A jQuery plugin that turns a textarea into an online form builder for letting your users quickly build their own web forms via drag and drop.

It also provides a formRender component which allows you to render a form from a form-template you specify.

[Demo] [Download]

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Build HTML Form From JSON Schema - jQuery JSON Form

JSON Form is a JSON based form builder library which dynamically generates form fields from JSON data on the client side.

[Demo] [Download]

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JSON To Form And Form To JSON Converter - jQuery jform

jform is an easy jQuery form builder which lets you dynamically generates form fields with preset values using JSON schema.

[Demo] [Download]

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Form Based JSON Editor For jQuery - jsonToForm

A simple, jQuery based JSON editor to dynamically generate editable forms from JSON schemas so that the uses are able to view, edit and valid JSON data in a simple way.

[Demo] [Download]

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Form Generator With JSON Schema - jQuery jsForm

A feature-rich JSON To Form generator that takes data from any JS objects and populates the form field with that data.

[Demo] [Download]

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Vanilla JS Form Builder Plugins:

form-data-json

A Vanilla JavaScript library to simplify the manipulation of HTML form with 2 functionalities: Form Builder: Fill form fields with JSON data you provide; Form Output: Output form values as JSON data.

[Demo] [Download]

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Visual Form Builder With JavaScript – EasyJsonForm.js

A free open-source JavaScript library that provides a visual interface to help you easily create HTML forms.

[Demo] [Download]

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jsonforms

JavaScript powered Forms with JSON Form Builder.

[Demo] [Download]

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Populate Form fields From JSON – populatejs

populatejs is a pure JavaScript plugin for dynamic form creation that populates existing form fields from a JSON object.

[Demo] [Download]

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form-js

View, visually edit and simulate JSON-based forms.

[Demo] [Download]

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Conclusion:

Seeking more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create JSON based Form Builders on the web & mobile? See jQuery Form Builder and JavaScript Form Builder sections for more details.

See also:

• 5 Best Form Generator Components For Vue.js