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Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide

By : Michel Anders
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Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide

By: Michel Anders

Overview of this book

<p>Building your own Python web applications provides you with the opportunity to have great functionality, with no restrictions. However, creating web applications with Python is not straightforward. Coupled with learning a new skill of developing web applications, you would normally have to learn how to work with a framework as well.</p> <p><em>Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide</em> shows you how to independently build your own web application that is easy to use, performs smoothly, and is themed to your taste – all without having to learn another web framework.</p> <p>Web development can take time and is often fiddly to get right. This book will show you how to design and implement a complex program from start to finish. Each chapter looks at a different type of web application, meaning that you will learn about a wide variety of features and how to add them to your custom web application. You will also learn to implement jQuery into your web application to give it extra functionality. By using the right combination of a wide range of tools, you can have a fully functional, complex web application up and running in no time.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – implementing inline labels


Take a look again at the screenshot of the list of tasks:

The highlighted parts show what we mean by inline labels. The input fields display some helpful text to indicate their use and when we click such a field, this text will disappear and we can enter our own text. If we abort the input by clicking outside the input field when we have not yet entered any text, the inline label is shown again.

What just happened?

tooltip.js shows a number of important concepts: First how to apply a function to each member of a selection (highlighted). In this case, we apply the function to all <input> elements that have a title attribute. Within the function passed to the each() method, the selected <input> element is available in the this variable. If the content of an <input> element is completely empty, we change its content to that of the title attribute and add the class inline-label to the <input> element. That way, we can style...