Advanced Node.js Development

Adding the text field

Now that we have our button in place, the only thing we need to do is add the little text field. This is going to be the text field where a user types their message. This is going to require us to use an input tag, and instead of opening and closing an input tag, we're going to use the self-closing syntax:

<form id="message-form">  <input/>  <button>Send</button></form>

Because we don't need to actually put anything inside it like we do for button, or for form, we are going to be adding quite a few attributes onto input, first up, name, we want to give this field a unique name, something like message is going to get the job done. We also want to go ahead and set the type. There are a lot of different types for input tags. ...