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JavaScript Essentials For Dummies
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JavaScript Essentials For Dummies

by Paul McFedries
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
3h 21m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 10

Dealing with Form Data

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Coding text boxes

Bullet Programming checkboxes, radio buttons, and selection lists

Bullet Monitoring and triggering form events

Bullet Dealing with the form data

In this chapter, you learn how to “wire up” your HTML forms by plugging them into some JavaScript code. You explore various form-related objects and then get right to work coding text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and selection lists. You also dive into the useful world of form events and even learn how to enhance your form controls with keyboard shortcuts. To top it all off, you go hog wild and learn how to store form data using the Web Storage API.

Coding Text Fields

Text-based fields are the most commonly used form elements, and most of them use the <input> tag. The input element has tons of attributes, but from a coding perspective, you’re generally interested in only four:

<input id="textId" type="textType" name="textName" value="textValue">

Here’s what the various parts are:

  • textId: A unique identifier for the text field
  • textType: The kind of text field you want to use in your ...
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