Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fifth Edition

3. Introduction to HTML5: Part 2

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, ...