November 2011
Beginner
992 pages
38h
English
Form ever follows function.
—Louis Sullivan
I listen and give input only if somebody asks.
—Barbara Bush
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
• Build a form using the new HTML5 input types.
• Specify an input element in a form as the one that should receive the focus by default.
• Use self-validating input elements.
• Specify temporary placeholder text in various input elements
• Use autocomplete input elements that help users reenter text that they’ve previously entered in a form.
• Use a datalist to specify a list of values that can be entered in an input element and to autocomplete entries as the user types.
• Use HTML5’s new page-structure elements to delineate parts of a page, including headers, sections, figures, ...
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