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HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers
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HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

by Marco Casario, Peter Elst, Charles Brown, Nathalie Wormser, Cyril Hanquez
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
7h 28m
English
Apress
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Chapter 4. HTML5 Forms

Forms are an essential part of any web application that requires input by the user.

Since first created with HTML 2.0 specifications, forms have allowed us to make web pages interactive. In fact, through form controls, it is possible for the user to interact with and insert various types of information, which can then be sent to the server to be processed.

HTML 4 provided pretty basic form controls, which were usually text fields and most of the interactivity happened on the server side. Validation of a type of data inserted onto a form control is a classic example of operations that were carried out on the server side with HTML 4, unless they used JavaScript or AJAX frameworks.

With HTML5 forms today, it is possible to develop ...

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