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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)

HTML5 form validation


The purpose of introducing HTML5 validation is to notify a user that a page contains some mandatory information that needs to be filled or corrects the users for any errors using the browser's built-in processing. We should take advantage of all the capabilities and knowledge that the browser has, to catch errors within a form, before sending it to the server. Also, we need not bother about the time and expense of a network round-trip or getting a response from the server about some stupid error.

New <input> attributes such as required and pattern used in combination with CSS pseudo-class selectors make it easier to write the checks and display feedback to the user. There are also other advanced validation techniques that allow you to use JavaScript to set custom validity rules and messages or to determine whether an element is invalid and why.

Before we go deeper into HTML5 validations, let us see the difference when the client-side validation is performed using...