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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Natalie Maclees
Book Image

jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a fancy login form


Follow these steps to create a login form in a lightbox:

  1. We'll get started by setting up an HTML page and the associated files and folders, like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Our HTML page will contain a header that displays a login form as shown in the following code. It's common for sites to allow people to log in from any page on the site.

    <header id="page-header">
      <h1>Ireland: The Emerald Isle</h1>
      <form action="#" id="login-form">
        <div><label for="username">Username:</label> <input type="text" id="username"/></div>
        <div><label for="password">Password:</label> <input type="password" id="password"/></div>
        <div><input type="submit" value="Log In"/></div>
      </form>
    </header>
  2. Next, we'll open styles.css and add some CSS so that the header is displayed with the title on the left and the form on the right...