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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)

Fluid grids


A fluid is a substance that continually changes its form and shape accordingly when applied under a shear stress.

In terms of web design, fluid refers to our design that we adapt and shear stress refers to the screen resolution according to which the fluid components adjust. Components in fluid designs adapt the environment or the screen resolution and flow accordingly.

For responsive design, we can say that this is a combination of a number of elements in which one is fluid grids and another is the use of media queries to load CSS, depending on the size of the screen along with its types; so we can say that fluid grids are not exactly responsive designs in themselves.

To keep the layout clean and to easily divide the grid into a specific number of columns, the maximum layout size is defined in the fluid grids. Instead of pixel-based dimensions, each element inside the grid is designed with proportional widths and heights so that they adapt according to the parent container. Elements...