Creating, Styling, and Validating Web Forms

Creating, Styling, and Validating Web Forms Courseware (WFM101)

HTMLWeb DevelopmentCSSJavaScript

This course will guide students through creating forms with HTML, styling forms with CSS, and validating forms with JavaScript and regular expressions. The course also introduces students to server-side form validation using Node.js and working with JSON for data exchange. It also introduces students to Ajax.

Publisher: Webucator

Benefits

  1. Practical Skills: Students will learn to create functional and visually appealing web forms, providing them with practical skills to enhance their web development projects.
  2. Validation Techniques: The course equips students with the knowledge to implement client-side and server-side form validation, ensuring data integrity and security.
  3. Flexibility and Customization: By understanding various form elements and attributes, students will be able to create highly customizable forms tailored to specific user requirements.
  4. Improved User Experience: The skills gained in this course will enable students to design user-friendly forms, enhancing the overall user experience on their web applications.

PowerPoint Presentation

This course includes a PowerPoint presentation that maps to the manual and to the labs:

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Skillable Lab

Outline

  1. HTML Forms
    1. How HTML Forms Work
    2. The <form> Tag
      1. Get vs. Post
    3. Form Elements
      1. id and name Attributes
      2. Text Fields
      3. Labels
      4. Text-like Input Types
      5. placeholder Attribute
      6. pattern Attribute
      7. Password Fields
      8. Date and Time Fields
      9. Number Fields
      10. Color Fields
      11. Tel, URL, and Email Fields
      12. Search Fields
      13. Hidden Fields
    4. Buttons
      1. Submit Button
      2. Reset Button
      3. Button Buttons
    5. Checkboxes
    6. Radio Buttons
    7. Fieldsets
    8. Select Menus
      1. Option Groups
    9. Textareas
  2. JavaScript Form Validation
    1. Server-side Form Validation
    2. HTML Form Validation
    3. Accessing Form Data
    4. Form Validation with JavaScript
    5. Checking Validity on Input and Submit Events
    6. Adding Error Messages
      1. The dataset Property
    7. Validating Textareas
    8. Validating Checkboxes
    9. Validating Radio Buttons
      1. Which Radio Button was Selected?
    10. Validating Select Menus
    11. Giving the User a Chance
  3. Styling Forms with CSS
    1. General Form Layout
    2. Form-field Pseudo-Classes
    3. Applying Pseudo-Classes to Forms
    4. Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, and Fieldsets
  4. Regular Expressions
    1. Getting Started
      1. JavaScript's Regular Expression test() Method
    2. Regular Expression Syntax
      1. Start and End ( ^ $ )
      2. Number of Occurrences ( ? + * {} )
      3. Common Characters ( . \d \D \w \W \s \S )
      4. Grouping ( [] )
      5. Negation ( ^ )
      6. Subpatterns ( () )
      7. Alternatives ( | )
      8. Escape Character ( \ )
      9. Case-Insensitive Matches
    3. Backreferences
    4. Form Validation with Regular Expressions
    5. Cleaning Up Form Entries
    6. A Slightly More Complex Example
  5. Node.js and Server-side Form Validation
    1. Welcome to the Server-side
      1. What is a web server?
      2. Dynamic Websites
    2. Google Chrome DevTools: Network Tab
      1. Status Codes
    3. Welcome to Node.js
      1. Installing Node.js
      2. package.json
      3. Our First App
      4. What does npm start do?
    4. Our First Web App
      1. Stopping the Server
    5. Fat-arrow Functions
    6. Sending a Response with HTML
    7. The favicon.ico Icon
    8. Simple Routing and 404 Pages
      1. Delivering favicon.ico
    9. Express - Node.js Web Application Framework
      1. app.js
    10. Favicon Middleware
    11. Static Files
    12. Processing a Simple Form
    13. Form Validation
    14. Validators
      1. Validation Chaining
      2. not()
      3. withMessage(message)
      4. Custom Validators
    15. Ajax
      1. XMLHttpRequest
      2. Asynchronous
  6. JSON
    1. Review of Object Literals
      1. Arrays
      2. Objects
      3. Arrays in Objects
      4. Objects in Arrays
    2. Back to JSON
      1. JSON Syntax
      2. The built-in JavaScript JSON Object

Required Prerequisites

  • Basic HTML
  • Basic CSS
  • Basic JavaScript
License

Length: 3 days | $105.00 per copy
Labs: Add-on available | $38.23 per lab
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What is Included?
  • Student Manual
  • Student Class Files
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Labs (optional add-on)
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