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Form templates — the gallery, live preview, and the tabbed template

MegaForm ships a template gallery: complete, styled forms you can preview live and take as a starting point. This page follows one popular request end to end — a tabbed form, where the filler can jump between tabs freely instead of being marched through a one-way wizard.

Note

The gallery is served online and grows without an upgrade: 68 designs as of 9 August 2026, up from 48 in July. Your install reads the current list every time it opens, so a design published after you installed MegaForm still appears.

Browsing the template gallery, previewing the Tabbed Account Setup template, using it, and navigating its tabs freely in the created form

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  1. New Form → Template Gallery opens the gallery: cards with live thumbnails (each thumb is the real form rendering, not a screenshot), category chips (Business, Travel, Contact, Events, …) and a search box. Tabbed Account Setup (Business · 19 fields) is the first card.
  2. Hover a card → Preview. The preview dialog renders the template with the real form engine, in memory — nothing is created yet. The stat cards show 13 fields · 6 pages · 6 sections · custom HTML, and there are desktop / tablet / mobile toggles.
  3. The preview is interactive: in the recording the Company and Billing tabs are clicked inside the preview — the tab bar (Account · Company · Billing · Preferences · Security · Review) navigates freely, with a "0 of 5 sections complete" progress pill.
  4. Use this template loads it into the wizard with the name prefilled; walk the wizard's steps and Create Form.
  5. The builder opens on the created form. Its Preview button renders the live form: the same tab bar, and clicking Company → Preferences → Security → Review jumps straight to any tab.

Tabbed vs multi-step

Both split a long form into pages; the difference is who controls the order.

Multi-step (wizard) Tabbed
Navigation Next / Previous, in order Click any tab, any time
Progress Stepper, completed steps marked Per-section completion pill
Good for Flows with dependencies between pages Forms people fill out of order

In the schema, tabbed mode is settings.pageNavigationMode: "tabs" (with tabbedForm: true), and each tab is a Section. See Template JSON Reference.

Importing your own

The gallery footer accepts Import JSON — a MegaForm export (.json) loads exactly like a shipped template, including into the same live preview. That is the round-trip for moving forms between sites or keeping them in source control.

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