JavaScript / jQuery and custom form elements

Hello everybody,

stackoverflow has always been a good resource for programming related issues. This is the first time I ask a mysqlf question since I absolutely cannot find a good solution. So please forgive me if I forget anything - I want to learn; -)

I have been using JS and jQuery for a long time. The advantage of jQuery is that there are many resources and plugins for various needs that you can use out of the box. However, I see many websites using fairly nice form elements (nested inputs for: text / password, radio, check boxes, drop-down lists, etc.). But I could not find a jQuery plugin or JavaScript framework that provides the ability to create style / style elements. Either they lack element support, or they are very unstable.

  • The jQuery user interface (which I recently started using) does not support text inputs and drop-down menus.
  • NiceForms is pretty neat, but it's a bit unstable in some browsers and pretty hacks. It replaces some elements with various absolute positioned divs, which sometimes completely destroy my layout or just don't work (when swimming, etc.). He also lacks many basic attributes, such as the width of some elements.

I am looking for a way to draw them graphically. So I don’t want to just change my borders using CSS. Do you know any resources I can use for this? I myself coded it, but I'm a little afraid of a lot of work, as it can be very unpleasant to configure custom form fields for all common browsers.

Does anyone know any other (still supported or stable) approaches than jQuery UI and NiceForms?

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