December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
10h 42m
English
In this chapter, you will learn about HTML5 web forms and the new functionality now available to web developers. Of course, not all these new features are fully supported by all browsers, but as you will see in the recipes throughout this chapter, the new features degrade nicely. There are more than ten new input types and several new attributes to choose from, along with some new CSS tricks you can use to create forms.
Even though there are several new input types, without a doubt the biggest new feature is the built-in form validation HTML5 offers. Previously, you had to use server-side code like PHP or C# to check the contents of the submitted form and then return the page and display the errors to the user. Or ...