Chapter 6. Doing It with Forms

Ext JS comes with powerful widgets for collecting and editing data. We have the form component and many types of input widgets. These include the textfield, textarea, radio, checkbox, combobox, slider, and many more types.

In this chapter, you are going to learn about the components we can use to collect data in our applications. Also, we will work on some parts to be reused for our final application, as well as create some forms.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The form component
  • The available field types
  • The field container
  • Submitting data

The form component

Ext JS contains a component called Ext.form.Panel. This component is a subclass of Ext.panel.Panel and uses Ext.form.Basic as a required class. ...

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