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Learning Zurb Foundation

By : Kevin Horek
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Learning Zurb Foundation

By: Kevin Horek

Overview of this book

<p>Responsive web design is the next big thing in web design right now. It allows you to control and adapt to the user experience across a variety of devices, screens, and resolutions. Foundation is one of the most well-known responsive frameworks available, and allows you to speed up the prototyping, designing, and theming of your web project; as well as allowing you to create your own custom themes to suit your needs. It makes your life easier by giving you a grid, elements, and JavaScript functions that are responsive and easily customized to work with any web or mobile project that arises.</p> <p>This book starts off with teaching you the basics, and gradually moves on to cover the most advanced parts of this amazing framework. You will learn how to use Foundation to prototype, design, and theme your projects as well as discover how to use the framework with any programming language or content management system.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Zurb Foundation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Form validation


Now that we have a form, let's add some validation. In order to do this, we need to add a "data-abide" attribute to the form tag. We need to add an error message by adding the following code on or around line 150, right after the label on our first input. It will look like the following code:

<div class="row">
  <div class="large-12 columns">
    <label>Label <small>required</small>
      <input type="text" placeholder="I am an input" required  />
    </label>
    <small class="error">This is required</small>
  </div>
</div>

You will notice that we added the "<small>" tag, which looks like the following line of code:

<small class="error">This is required</small>

You will also need to add a "required" tag to the input, which will look like the following line of code:

<input type="text" placeholder="I am an input" required  />

Then, on or around line 198, just before the closing "</fieldset...