Mastering HTML5 Forms

Guidelines

A good practice or guideline is to design and develop a standard approach, which has always shown better results.

Some of the best practices to create effective forms are as follows:

• Use relevant content groupings to organize forms
• Minimize the amount of help and tips required to fill out a form
• Employ flexible data entry
• For long forms, show progress and save options
• Maintain a consistent approach
• Maintain a clear relationship between the initial selection options
• Use inline validation of inputs that have potentially high error rates
• Provide actionable remedies to correct errors
• Disable the Submit button after a user clicks on it to avoid multiple submissions
• Clearly communicate about the submission of data and provide feedback
• Maintain separate ...