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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)

Limitations


Mobile web design's new approach is responsive design, but one of the biggest challenges for web designers and their clients is finalizing the layout or wireframes as to how the website will look.

Some of the other challenges we need to overcome to build successful websites are:

  • Responsive design takes more development time than building other websites

  • Scaling images reduces image quality because scaling is based on screen size and not context

  • On smaller devices, using navigation menus becomes a challenge

  • Browser compatibility becomes an issue; because of older browsers, the support of media queries becomes limited

  • Building complex websites becomes a tedious task with this technology

  • Development cost is higher

  • Response time of the website becomes slower because of the much larger size of the web page

  • The loading time in mobile devices is increased while downloading the desktop content that is not even displayed