# JQuery UI Reviews **Vendor:** jqueryui **Category:** [Other Web Frameworks Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 3.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About JQuery UI jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. ## JQuery UI Reviews ### 1. Jquery UI Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nishedh J. | Senior Technology Manager / Lead .Net developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Jquery UI is a popular and influential library for enhancing web user interfaces. There are lots of advantages of Jquery UI: Cross Platform Easy to use Customizable widgets Large Community Accessibility Effects Themes Easy to use **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** There are a few disadvantages as well: Limited Customization: Learning curve Dependency **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** This helped me by customizing the front-end design. It provides a clean, easy to use that makes adding interactive elements to my webpage simple. This has helped me to increase ma business performance as well. ### 2. modern sites won't function without this **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Customer Success & Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2023 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Makes life simple on web developement front. Great support, clean code. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** There is nothing I don't like. current sites won't run without it. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way it works with web applications makes implementation of these simpler. ### 3. JQuery UI is vest for user interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Munendra K. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Jquery UI is straightforward to use. At that time, it was very used for the user interface because its saved time and performance. Jquery UI provides many functions that are very useful. And we efficiently used it by using Jquery CDN. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Jquery UI is disliked because some functions are working on a version, not on all versions. So it is too hard to identify. And to use it, you have a deep knowledge of Jquery. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** JQuery is used for CSS and performs some action on particular selectors. And we serve our actions without reloading our page by using Ajax calls. It solves the time issue and makes responsive webs. ### 4. the OG library to add highly interactive widgets and effects to your website **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parth S. | SDE , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** easy to use, well documented and fairly light weight **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** no regular updates/releases, new stuff and enhancement in the existing library should be more regular **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** adding interactive widgets like calendar, input select list etc. in our websites ### 5. Required for lots of JQ effects, DND, & gives handy access to richer, prettier UI components too!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arlon A. | Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2021 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** My favorite is probably explode ($( "#toggle" ).toggle( "explode" );) but there are tons of others, and you need it for drag-n-drop, and it has all kinds of other stuff that comes along too like accordions and resize-ability, date-pickers, it gives you everything you'd need for a JavaScript UI. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** I could probably go for something without the graphical influence, like, for example, drag-n-drop is essential in an application, the button themes you get aren't necessarily essential, so I could probably go for something even lighter than JQuery UI for some projects. It's already a lightweight addition, but yeah, the graphical components seem less essential than the functionality additions. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Basic JQuery gives you lots of stuff, animations, a whole syntax, and easy DOM manipulation. Add JQueryUI, and you get all kinds of features on top of JQuery, like drag-n-drop, more effects, and fancy buttons and GUI elements. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Again I use it for toggle explode, but I need it for JavaScript drag-n-drop. I think you can do it with pure JavaScript but JQueryUI, for how lightweight it is, really streamlines that functionality. Plus, then I can trust John Resig to deal with cross browser compatibility issues, instead of me. ### 6. JQuery Framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** JQuery is easy to use. With basic knowledge of javascript, any user can use JQuery for additional front-end features for web UI. Some of JQuery's features help simplify AJAX call by making page performance faster and easy to use. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It contains some issues when written without proper observation or deeper understanding **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** JQuery is used for CSS-style selectors to select parts, elements of UI. Also used to make AJAX calls from MVC web app ### 7. Easiest way to implement functionalities in the code **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam S. | Technical Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** We can use it in two ways one is with placing the local files and second is that we can use it via link which is very useful. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It is difficult to identify bug in it which is very time consuming. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing inside it in a code and showing the contents in order to display the functionalities. ### 8. Easy to use JS library to push some life into your website **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tomasz B. | Lead Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2020 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** jQuery is a great library, especially for people that are starting their adventure with JS. Its main pros are: ease of use, great documentation, loads of functionality and a huge community. You will find out that complex problems can be solved with just a few lines of code and thanks to the great documentation - finding the right code will be a piece of cake, but even if you haven't found it in the documentation there's a huge community that will help you. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** If you're not careful, you'll start to use jQuery everywhere. For simple tasks attaching a (quite huge) jQuery library is worthless. Remember that all the jQuery things a pure JS also can do and for one simple animation it's not worth implementing the whole jQuery library. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Use it only when you need several animations on your website. Don't use it when it's just one or two - than is better to just write it on your own. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** jQuery is one of the best solutions you can use if you built your website in technologies like PHP and you want to push some life into your project. It has quite a lot of functions that will allow you to use nice animations and transitions on your website. It will also help you with a few more complex JS projects, but bare in mind - jQuery is just a library, not a framework. You can't build the whole Front-end using it. For those use a proper framework like Angular or React. jQuery for a reason was very popular before the JS frameworks era and it still is, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care about your website optimization. ### 9. JQuery UI provides beautiful and simple components **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robson A. | Rockstar Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Ux provided by components, animations, usage and simplicity for change layout **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Component amount, should have more components **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** In no SPA (single page application) is a awesome tool, many widgets and easily manipulation **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many... rich interfaces, dynamic forms and others frontend problems ### 10. Game changing in its day, but the web has evolved so drastically. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob E. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Jquery UI made it easy to add commonly used user interface elements into a web page like dialogs, tabs while also providing effects like fading. All this was done while writing very few lines of code than you would have needed using plain javascript. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** With the rise of front end javascript frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and many more, that provided more functionality like client side routing, state management, jquery UI quickly became irrelevant **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** JQuery UI made it easy to add UI components and apply animations and visual effect while writing very few line of code. ### 11. Good plugin for adding common UI elements to a web site or web app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin T. | Manager of Information Systems, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** On the jQuery UI site, you can create a custom build for your own purposes depending on what components and features you actually need. So if you just need a modal pop up window, you can include just that feature and not have the bloat of the rest of the package. While there are front-end frameworks that are slowly introducing some of the components that are found in jQuery, the majority of them are not. For a website or app that needs to include a modern user interface, jQuery UI is a useful tool. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Many components and features jQuery UI provides is being included in the latest front-end frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap, etc.) using native browser functionality. This can make jQuery UI seem seem bulky or outdated by doing things the 'old' way. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** jQuery UI is used all over the web. It can help you bring additional functionality and ease-of-use to your website or application. It will save you time from having to reinvent the wheel and build some components yourself. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use jQuery UI in some select projects depending on what kind of solution I'm building. It provides some features that aren't quite available in browsers natively yet, or makes those features easier to use with the jQuery UI implementation. Like the datepicker component - not standard across browsers natively and haven't seen it in a front-end framework... so if I need a datepicker sometimes I will use jQuery UI. ### 12. JQuery for the Web Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sukanya M. | Manager, Marketing Strategy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** The easiest way to integrate the JQuery user interface with an existing application. Download the library and use the APIs to convert the standard user interface with a rich user interface. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Still waiting for an API on the table object. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** This is the most stable APIs we found. JQuery API and the online theme generator reduced the development time from 3 months per application to 2 weeks development and testing time. The online examples are very helpful for the functional users to understand what UI components to be used for which requirement. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Opening a dialog box was the biggest problem for most of our applications. It was always slow because the application used to open an instance of the web browser. JQuery dialog gave a lighter and rich user interface for the end users. We changed the Menu and Accordion for several applications which simplified the user screen. We saved lot of money of rewriting the whole application. JQuery UI ready to use theme helped us to convert all the page object colors to match our organization branding theme. We created a coustomer and vendor ranking screen using the Sortable API. This was the game changer for the organization when for the 1st time we decided to use JQuery UI. There were lot of information on the web page and we did not have an option to organize it. Accordion UI object helped us to group together the information for the users. ### 13. It's alright. It's too heavy for modern use. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Irvin D. | Digital Marketing Specialist, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** My favorite thing about jQuery UI is obviously it's integration with the already popular jQuery. It makes a seamless integration between both and offers various UI components. So if you're trying to build a concept, or just something quick, I think jQuery UI is the perfect solution. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** jQuery UI is kind of clunky, heavy, and out of date with all the new frameworks that have came out in recent years/months. Also with the release of HTML 5 it really isn't as necessary anymore as HTML 5 has brought a lot of the features offered by jQuery UI into native. Obviously, native is always better when you're want to build something that's fast, light weight, and works across devices. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** If you're looking to test a concept and are already using jQuery, then go right ahead. If you're developing something for production, I would suggest using another framework or working with what HTML5 already natively provides. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before the release of all these new frameworks and native HTML 5, I would use jQuery UI to quickly build applications, interactive websites, or build concepts as it's really quick to get set up with jQuery UI, specially if you already have jQuery in your environment. ### 14. Was a good solution, 8 years ago **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip B. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** jQuery UI is a drop-in JS based UI kit. Incredibly easy to use (even for a monkey with a hammer). Very customizable. Used pretty much everywhere. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It's old. Even in its more or less modern incarnation, it's a UI framework that had a good run - but is now simply replaced with much more modern and robust solutions. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** If you're considering it for a new project? Don't. There are better solutions out there. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used jQuery UI extensively in the last decade (mostly at the beginning of it) in a wide variety of projects. It was instrumental in creating JavaScript based UIs quickly and efficiently. As it turns out, I'm still kind of stuck with it on one major platform for collaboration and it does the job... Although it's clunky. ### 15. I am software developer 90% application in front hand we use jquery UI for animation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Jquery animation I like the effects show or hide div's or buttons and menu and progress bar and it gives support to all browsers.and provide amazing documentation on the website **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Sometimes some feature doesn't work on internet explore old version **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to build the great user interface and great animated web application so I don't need to use another javascript library to integrate with our application ### 16. Custom WIdgets, ready to eat **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Much like M.R.E food, that needs only hot water, JQuery UI's provide ready to use widgets that can be directly pasted into any composer including codepen. JQuery UI is easy to use and customize, especially with bootstrap widgets, and themes are easy to add. It reduces production time to less than a tenth. It is directly amenable to zero-code development, though I still like to intimidate people with code, as Linus says stop the cheap talk, show us the code. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It is not customizable to many newer CSS libraries and themes, including support for reactive programming. I am sure stream based UI's will be added soon. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** It is a great way to write JS, reduces development time by a tenth, if the themes are suitable to you, You can always contribute more themes and open publish it. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use embeddable JQuery objects in my I.F UI. ### 17. Good plugin of JQuery **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** I am a programmer and I am coding on Jquery daily basis, JQuery UI is a plugin of jquery where you can find a different type of extension like sortable, UI datepicker, autocomplete and etc, it is a very good tool to use **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** I like jquery UI but sometimes I don't just because of conflict the code sometime I purchase a theme from the website there is own custom build jquery functions and if you want to include your code you have to make sure the plugin file is already not embedded. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use , open source, most of the code easily available in stack overflow, time-saving plugin ### 18. Good if you have limited options **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It has been around for awhile and a number of older applications use it... so most of the bugs have been worked out and there is a fair amount of help you can find online. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It modifies the DOM directly, which means that if you are using it with any framework that does DOM caching then it will invalidate your cache and cause your application to slow down. This may be a little subjective, but the controls look a little dated at this point. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** If you are working with an older framework, like ASP MVC, or ASP Webforms then I think that this is a fine solution. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilized this as an alternative to basic html controls. ### 19. JQuery UI - not everything needs to be react or other fancy framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It is simple to get around with most of the features out of the box. It has many plugins that are simple to integrate with the main library. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It feels a bit outdated now that there are many frameworks and libraries available, but when you need to do something that does not require a full framework implementation it works ok. Changing the design styles can be a PITA. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** For simple tasks, this can get you a long way in the path. Most of the plugins can be used with newer frameworks but then there are many newer alternatives when considering the use of a framework. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is a simple tool most developers are familiar with. ### 20. Review of jQuery UI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheetal V. | Project Development Manager, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** JQuery is a compilation of visual effects, GUI widgets, themes combined with Css and html. Most of the top websites use jQuery UI for better interface. jQuery UI interactions can be easily draggable, droppable, resizable, selectable and sortable. Its color animation, toggle class effects are easy to implement. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It provides too many UI plugins which somehow effect. ExtJs has a better hand in this. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used jQuery for the development purpose of our corporate project. ### 21. Good for making a quick UI, but a bit dated **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It makes it easy to add useful UI components like date pickers and sliders, without needing to implement a lot of custom logic. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** It has not been updated for a while (last release in 2016). Since then jQuery itself has declined in popularity in favour of newer frameworks such as angular and react. The visual design is also a bit dated and not so suitable for mobile devices. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** The functionality of jQuery UI is increasingly being implemented natively in browsers. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main advantage is development speed, since it lets you quickly add useful widgets to a web application with more functionality or customisability than native browser widgets. ### 22. A dying framework **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua F. | Full Stack Software Developer, IT, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Its easy to get some advanced UI components up and running very quickly. Theres not a ton that you need to learn to get started with jquery ui. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Projects quickly become cluttered and unorganized. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Use Vue.js **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to created ui application that required dragable components. It was quick and eay to set up, but a pain to maintain. ### 23. Outdated. Definitely not the way to go for any new development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gershon G. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It used to be a good solution for a quick UI element in web interface without an excessive amount of work. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** The controls are seriously outdated and looking not as what a good web UI is expected to look today **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Don't use it. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** At the time it was a great way to bootstrap a web interface. But wouldn't be today. ### 24. Agility in content layout. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toni D. | Full-stack Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** The ideal tool to start your project, layout, and bring to life with all the elements provided by jQuery UI. And starting from that base, the rest of the programming, design, and functionality becomes a simpler path. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** Looking for flaws, you will realize that sometimes you have to limit yourself to the options or elements it provides. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design and quick layout for project management and new product decision-making. ### 25. Makes JS Easy but with Slow development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It has great cross-browser and backward compatibility with the most popular browsers on the market. Also supports internationalization which is huge for a multi-lingual company. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** UI Development is rather slow and new features or components are not released frequently. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Its a great platform to design HTML components with very less effort. Development of the components is slow in this UI designer, so it is rare to get new features. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Jquery UI for our front-end design. ### 26. Not the best programming framework **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** The best thing I like about jQuery is the functionality of the framework. **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** What I dislike about the framework is that it has a longer load speed than vanilla JS, manipulates the DOM, and is outdated along with about half of the functionality being available in ES6 and greater. **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** Consider other frameworks and/or just vanilla JavaScript. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a great beginner language but not something you should hold onto as no Senior Developer uses this language. ### 27. Easy for use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** Easy to integrate jquery ui with any application thats running currently. They are stable api Good online resource with examples **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** At times it can get a bit clunky and heavy duty to run. Certain controls take a long time to load. **What problems is JQuery UI solving and how is that benefiting you?** The time to develop has drastically reduced for the product that we are building. Existing themes make it easier ### 28. A natural extension for jQuery **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about JQuery UI?** It can simplify easily some developments because include the most common components **What do you dislike about JQuery UI?** As another libraries we need learn who use it before add it to our projects **Recommendations to others considering JQuery UI:** It's an easy way to improve the look and feel of your application. 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