How to Add a Widget to Your Form

May 7, 2025

Jotform Widgets helps you lessen the workload of Creating Interactive and Dynamic Forms. Whether you need an interactive checklist, an image slider, or even an embedded video, Our wide variety of widgets can help you enhance functionality and improve your user’s experience, all without writing a single line of code.

Navigating, selecting, adding, and customizing widgets to fit your needs is super easy. Here’s how to do it:

  1. In Form Builder, click on Add Element on the left side of the page.
Accessing form elements in Form Builder by clicking Add Element on the left side
  1. Then, in the Form Element menu, click on the Widgets tab to search for the widget you want to use.
Navigating to the Widgets tab in Jotform’s Form Elements menu to find a specific widget
  1. Now, click on or drag and drop the widget to your form.
Adding a widget to a form by clicking or dragging it from the Widgets menu
  1. Next, on the right side of the selected widget, click on the Wand icon.
  2. In the Widget Settings panel on the right side of the page, set up the options the way you want them, and click on Update to save your changes.
Customizing widget options by clicking the Wand icon to open the Widget Settings panel
  1. In addition, if you click the Gear icon, it’ll open up the Question Properties menu that will give you more options to customize the widget.
Question Properties panel after selecting the Gear icon on a widget

That’s it. You now have an interactive and dynamic form.

Note

Every widget comes with its own Properties menu, where you’ll find General and Advanced tabs for extra customization options. You can also tweak the widget’s appearance by injecting custom CSS if you want a more personalized look. For more details, check out our guide on How to Inject CSS Code Into Widgets.

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