In this tutorial I will show you how to create form wizard and validation in jQuery, its a simple snippet created with Bootstrap and jquery to make a simple long from in steps to improve data collection process and beautify webpage.
In this tutorial I have used jQuery and Bootstrap.

First of all include your libraries:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

Above libraries required to run this snippet.

Basic HTML form with steps:

We created 3 steps of our firm step tabs setup like this

            <div class="stepwizard">
                <div class="stepwizard-row setup-panel">
                    <div class="stepwizard-step">
                        <a href="#step-1" type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-circle">1</a>
                        <p>Account Details</p>
                    </div>
                    
                    <div class="stepwizard-step">
                        <a href="#step-2" type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-circle" disabled="disabled">2</a>
                        <p>Career</p>
                    </div>
                    
                    <div class="stepwizard-step">
                        <a href="#step-3" type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-circle" disabled="disabled">3</a>
                        <p>Social Media</p>
                    </div>
                    
                </div>
            </div>

Above HTML create 3 steps tab above the form like this.

This HTML contain form elements in each step:

               <div class="row setup-content" id="step-1">
                    <div class="col-xs-12">
                        <div class="col-md-12">
                            <h3> Account Details</h3>
                            <!-- content go here -->
                            <button class="btn btn-light btn-block nextBtn pull-right" type="button" >Next</button>
                        </div>
                    </div>
               </div>

               <div class="row setup-content" id="step-2">
                    <div class="col-xs-12">
                        <div class="col-md-12">
                            <h3> Career</h3>
                            <!-- content go here -->
                            <button class="btn btn-light btn-block nextBtn pull-right" type="button" >Next</button>
                        </div>
                    </div>
               </div>

               <div class="row setup-content" id="step-3">
                    <div class="col-xs-12">
                        <div class="col-md-12">
                            <h3> Social Media</h3>
                            <!-- content go here -->
                            <button class="btn btn-light nextBtn btn-block pull-right" type="submit">Finish!</button>
                        </div>
                    </div>
               </div>

Jquery used to enable navigation and validation of form:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    var navListItems = $('div.setup-panel div a'), // tab nav items
            allWells = $('.setup-content'), // content div
            allNextBtn = $('.nextBtn'); // next button

    allWells.hide(); // hide all contents by defauld

    navListItems.click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var $target = $($(this).attr('href')),
                $item = $(this);

        if (!$item.hasClass('disabled')) {
            navListItems.removeClass('btn-primary').addClass('btn-default');
            $item.addClass('btn-primary');
            allWells.hide();
            $target.show();
            $target.find('input:eq(0)').focus();
        }
    });
    // next button
    allNextBtn.click(function(){
        var curStep = $(this).closest(".setup-content"),
            curStepBtn = curStep.attr("id"),
            nextStepWizard = $('div.setup-panel div a[href="#' + curStepBtn + '"]').parent().next().children("a"),
            curInputs = curStep.find("input[type='text'],input[type='email'],input[type='password'],input[type='url']"),
            isValid = true;
           // Validation
        $(".form-group").removeClass("has-error");
        for(var i=0; i<curInputs.length; i++){
            if (!curInputs[i].validity.valid){
                isValid = false;
                $(curInputs[i]).closest(".form-group").addClass("has-error");
            }
        }
        // move to next step if valid
        if (isValid)
            nextStepWizard.removeAttr('disabled').trigger('click');
    });

    $('div.setup-panel div a.btn-primary').trigger('click');
});
</script>

Some CSS to organize form step tabs:

<style type="text/css">
.form-control {
    height: 37px;
}
.stepwizard-step p {
    margin-top: 10px;
}

.stepwizard-row {
    display: table-row;
}

.stepwizard {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
    position: relative;
}

.stepwizard-step button[disabled] {
    opacity: 1 !important;
    filter: alpha(opacity=100) !important;
}

.stepwizard-row:before {
    top: 14px;
    bottom: 0;
    position: absolute;
    content: " ";
    width: 100%;
    height: 1px;
    background-color: #ccc;
    z-order: 0;

}

.stepwizard-step {
    display: table-cell;
    text-align: center;
    position: relative;
}

.btn-circle {
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 6px 0;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 1.428571429;
  border-radius: 15px;
}
</style>

That’s all I hope you like it a complete Demo and source code for download available with this tutorial.

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