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Mastering HTML5 Forms

By : Gaurav Gupta
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Mastering HTML5 Forms

By: Gaurav Gupta

Overview of this book

HTML5 has given web developers the ability to easily develop sites and applications which, previously, were extremely time consuming. Now, they can not only build visually stunning forms and web pages, but can also increase the scope of their applications, as well as collect valuable user inputs and data through customized forms. This practical guide will teach you how to create responsive forms, and how to link them to the database. This will enable you to take advantage of the power behind HTML5 elements for building forms, and make the user interfaces attractive and more interactive. Explore the benefits of web forms, and learn how to create them using new HTML5 form elements. This guide will take you through a number of clear, practical examples that will help you to take advantage of the forms built and customized using HTML5 and related technologies, quickly and painlessly. Your ability to build responsive forms will be enhanced throughout the book.You will also learn about the necessity of validations, CSS3 properties for improving the look of the form, and how to link the form to the server. Lastly, you will learn to make the standard forms responsive by making them compatible with desktops and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Backgrounds


CSS3 contains several new background attributes; and moreover, in CSS3, some changes are also made in the previous properties of the background; which allow greater control on the background element.

The new background properties added are as follows.

The background-clip property

The background-clip property is used to determine the allowable area for the background image.

If there is no background image, then this property has only visual effects such as when the border has transparent regions or partially opaque regions; otherwise,the border covers up the difference.

Syntax

The syntax for the background-clip property are as follows:

background-clip: no-clip / border-box / padding-box / content-box;

Values

The values for the background-clip property is as follows:

  • border-box: With this, the background extends to the outside edge of the border

  • padding-box: With this, no background is drawn below the border

  • content-box: With this, the background is painted within the content box; only the...