Introduction to Creating, Styling, and Validating Web Forms (WFM051)

This Introduction to Creating, Styling, and Validating Web Forms course provides a foundational understanding of web forms, essential for gathering user input and enhancing interactivity on websites. It is crafted for professionals looking to grasp the basics of form creation, styling, and validation, aiding companies in boosting their web development capabilities.

We kick off with the lesson on HTML Forms, where you'll dive into how these forms function and the various elements that comprise them. You'll explore the <form> tag, understanding the differences between GET and POST methods. This foundational lesson covers elements like text fields, labels, password fields, and many others. Special attributes such as id, name, placeholder, and pattern are also discussed. Practical exercises include working with buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, fieldsets, select menus, and textareas, ensuring you get hands-on experience.

Next, you’ll move on to JavaScript Form Validation, an important aspect of user input management. This lesson starts with server-side form validation before progressing to HTML form validation and then JavaScript-based approaches. You'll learn to access form data, validate text areas, checkboxes, and radio buttons, and implement error messages using the dataset property. By the end of this lesson, you'll be adept at ensuring the validity of user input both on input and submit events.

The course also includes a comprehensive lesson on Styling Forms with CSS. Here, you'll learn about general form layout and how to make your forms visually appealing and user-friendly. This lesson covers form-field pseudo-classes, applying them effectively to various form elements, including radio buttons, checkboxes, and fieldsets, ensuring a cohesive and appealing design.

By completing this course, you will have a solid foundation in creating, styling, and validating forms on web pages. You'll gain the skills needed to enhance user interaction and data accuracy on your company’s websites, contributing significantly to your web development toolbox.