This is a unique and up-to-date list of the 7 best JavaScript libraries (plugins) to replace, beautify, and enhance the default browser range slider (Input Range Object) with ease. Have fun.
Originally Published Mar 02 2018, updated Feb 15, 2023.
1. Accessible Touch-friendly Range Slider Plugin – noUiSlider
noUiSlider is a Lightweight and Customisable plugin for creating really cool, touch-friendly Range Sliders without having to include the complete jQuery UI library.
2. iOS Style Range Slider With Powerange.js
A perfect solution for UI range/quantity sliders with nice iOS style. It’s customizable by both CSS and JavaScript, including changing color and overall style, switching between horizontal and vertical style, custom min, max and start values, custom step interval, displaying decimal values, displaying icons instead of min/max numbers.
3. RangeTouch
A super tiny library to make <input type=”range”> sliders work better on touch devices.
4. Verly Range Slider
Range sliders with some verlet physics magic!
5. Animated Customizable Range Slider In Pure JavaScript – rSlider.js
A dependency-free JavaScript library for dynamically rendering pretty nice range sliders with custom scales, labels, and tooltips.
6. Feature-rich Range Slider With Pure JavaScript – mm-jsr
A simple, lightweight, modular JavaScript plugin that helps you create accessible, performant, mobile-friendly, highly customizable range sliders for numeric values.
7. Lightweight Fast Custom Range Slider Input With JavaScript
A lightweight and customizable JavaScript range slider input library that provides a great way to obtain numerical values from the user. Easy to customize via CSS.
More Resources:
Looking for more JavaScript solutions to create range sliders on modern web applications? Here are some resources you might find useful: