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How to make a HTML form like a pro

How to make a HTML form like a pro

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Hello World! Today we are talking about HTML form, it's mostly for beginners but anyone needs a refresh sometimes. So although I'm sure that you already knew this...

Here is the list of all input types in html5!

And remember the like❤️❤️

<input type="button">
<input type="checkbox">
<input type="color">
<input type="date">
<input type="datetime-local">
<input type="email">
<input type="file">
<input type="hidden">
<input type="image">
<input type="month">
<input type="number">
<input type="password">
<input type="radio">
<input type="range">
<input type="reset">
<input type="search">
<input type="submit">
<input type="tel">
<input type="text">
<input type="time">
<input type="url">
<input type="week">

Source: w3schools

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You can also have:

  • A label --> <label for="username">Click me to focus on input</label>
  • A Disabled input --> <input type="text" placeholder="This is a text input Disabled" disabled>
  • A multiple answer input (maybe with disabled options) --> 
    <select name="Select" id="Select">
    <option value="Default">Default field</option>
    <option value="1">Field 1</option>
    <option value="2" disabled>Fiel 2</option>
    <option value="3">Field 3</option>
    <option value="4" disabled>Fiel 4</option>
  </select>
  • A placeholder --> <input type="text" placeholder="I am the placeholder"> Alt Text
  • A cool user-friendly form --> ...

You can have here a live preview (in case you missed something): Click Me

Now it's time to add Some style!

First the basics

####:hover

  input:hover {
  background-color: whitesmoke;
  margin-bottom: 1%;
  border-width: 3px;
}

####:focus

  input:focus {
  background-color: yellow;
  color: black;
}

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####After a long search: here some stylish form: Simplicity: Contact Us Form (CodePen) Quiet: Login Form Extravagance: Registration Form Interactivity: Login Form Colorful: Contact Us Form

And now a list of 41, yes 41! responsive forms: On Alt Text

Please press like Button♡

And now, I'm sorry if you started web development last week, but you also need a little bit of JS:

A Prevent default never hurt anyone

form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
});

Retrieve info from the form:

form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
    InputValue = document.getElementById("InputId").value;
});

Check if email is valid:

{% link dev.to/devlorenzo/js-check-if-an-email-is-v.. %}

Check if password is valid:

{% link dev.to/devlorenzo/js-check-if-a-password-is.. %}

Codepen sample:

{% codepen codepen.io/DevLorenzo/pen/wvzNPKz %}

Hope this helped and thanks for reading!

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