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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)

Text effects


We have seen many websites with various text effects, and they are rapidly getting popular as the current and upcoming trend for good form design. With the help of CSS3, the best thing about these effects is that they can be achieved with pure CSS, that is, no more image replacements and image-heavy design. In this section, we will learn some new text effects that CSS3 provides us.

The new text features are as follows.

The text-shadow property

The text-shadow property is used to apply shadow effects to the text content. We can have one or more effects for a single text by using a simple comma.

These effects consist of a shadow color, x/y offset of the shadow effect, and a blurring radius for the shadow effect. The effects can overlap each other, but for clarity they should not overlap the text content.

Syntax

The syntax for the text-shadow property is given as follows:

text-shadow: <color><offset-x><offset-y><blur-radius>;

The word-wrap property

The word-wrap...