You hardly think about the work that goes into building a form,
but if you own a site, service or product, the form is an important
tool to have when you are gathering crowd intelligence. Online forms are
not really that hard to make, but if you want to build a nice-looking, functional form, yet don’t want to get your hands dirty with the codes, you’ve come to the right post.
Regardless of whether you need forms for feedback, login, payment or
for communication purposes, there are plenty of HTML form builders out
there that can generate these forms for you in a few simple clicks. They
are easy to use, customizable, effective and best of all, they are
free. Here are our 5 favorite HTML form builders. Go in with your
requirements and leave with the HTML codes to your custom-build forms in
no time.
JotForm comes with a ton of pre-made templates for you to work with.
It is a drag-and-drop form builder; just select a tool you require, and
drag it onto the building area where you can preview what your form
looks like.
You can customize and create your own form or choose a template
from one of the many categories. The templates help you start
somewhere, giving you ideas to create your own form. However, if you’re
satisfied with the template and want no other options, just go ahead and
get the HTML code and paste it on your website.
The first step of pForm lets you choose from 25 colour combinations
for the design of your form. You could probably find one that suit the colour theme of your website. Step 2 brings you to the builder where you can select what you want to have on your form.
Its user interface is easy to understand; you click on fields you
require in your form and drag the fields up and down to arrange them. At
the end of the exercise, this tool provides you a compressed file with
the HTML codes as well as CSS and JavaScript files; pretty much a complete package for you to install the form on your website.
HTMLform guides you through the whole process of creating and
installing the form into your website. It also provides you with
additional support and other files that will help you install the form
to your website successfully.
You navigate the creation process with buttons and side menus. Its
user interface is clean and it also has an autosave feature while you
create your form. After you are done, provide your email so it can send
you two files of your html code, one file is for use on websites whilst
the other is used as a plugin for
WordPress.
Reformed comes with instructions you can follow throughout the
process of building your form. It provides many options where you can
specify what is required in each field.
The way it guides you through its options is by asking you if you
need a certain feature. For example to check if you need your visitors
to have a proper email address, it will ask ‘Check for Valid Email?’.
After you have set everything up, you can test your form or just save
the form and get the code. It also has a way of saving a list of forms
you have created with them in the past.
Accessify prides in website accessibility and one of their many tools
is their Quick Form Builder. Although it does not have much of a user
interface when creating a form, by the end of the third step, you’ll be
able to copy the HTML code of the created form and paste it on your
website.
You start by determining fields such as Name, Email, Age or any other
field of information you need from your visitors. Next, you’ll have to
set what each field is to have, such as a password field which replaces
letters with asterisks. After you’ve decided on the options you want for
your website, it’ll generate the HTML code for you to copy.
