April 2024
Beginner
192 pages
3h 21m
English
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Chapter 10
Dealing with Form Data
IN THIS CHAPTER
Coding text boxes
Programming checkboxes, radio buttons, and selection lists
Monitoring and triggering form events
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 fieldtextType: The kind of text field you want to use in your ...
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