How to make an HTML form like a pro

Hello World! Today we are talking about HTML form, it's mostly for beginners but anyone needs a refresh sometimes.
So although I'm sure that you already knew this...

Here is the list of all input types in html5!

Read also:

Article No Longer Available

And remember the like❤️❤️

---

<input type="button">
<input type="checkbox">
<input type="color">
<input type="date">
<input type="datetime-local">
<input type="email">
<input type="file">
<input type="hidden">
<input type="image">
<input type="month">
<input type="number">
<input type="password">
<input type="radio">
<input type="range">
<input type="reset">
<input type="search">
<input type="submit">
<input type="tel">
<input type="text">
<input type="time">
<input type="url">
<input type="week">

Source: w3schools

---

You can also have:

• A label --> <label for="username">Click me to focus on input</label>
• A Disabled input --> <input type="text" placeholder="This is a text input Disabled" disabled>
• A multiple answer input (maybe with disabled options) -->

<select name="Select" id="Select">
      <option value="Default">Default field</option>
      <option value="1">Field 1</option>
      <option value="2" disabled>Fiel 2</option>
      <option value="3">Field 3</option>
      <option value="4" disabled>Fiel 4</option>
    </select>

• A placeholder --> <input type="text" placeholder="I am the placeholder">
• A cool user-friendly form --> ...

You can have here a live preview (in case you missed something):
Click Me

---

Now it's time to add Some style!

First the basics

:hover

  input:hover {
  background-color: whitesmoke;
  margin-bottom: 1%;
  border-width: 3px;
}

:focus

  input:focus {
  background-color: yellow;
  color: black;
}

After a long search: here some stylish form:

Simplicity:
Contact Us Form (CodePen)
Quiet:
Login Form
Extravagance:
Registration Form
Interactivity:
Login Form
Colorful:
Contact Us Form

And now a list of 41, yes 41! responsive forms:

Please press like Button♡

---

And now, I'm sorry if you started web development last week, but you also need a little bit of JS:

A Prevent default never hurt anyone

form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
});

Retrieve info from the form:

form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
    InputValue = document.getElementById("InputId").value;
});

---

Check if email is valid:

Article No Longer Available

Check if password is valid:

Article No Longer Available

Codepen sample:

---

Hope this helped and thanks for reading!

Check this article: The ultimate compilation of Cheat sheets (100+) - 🎁 / Roadmap to dev 🚀

Article No Longer Available

---

Subscribe to my newsletter!

A loooong, and fun, weekly recap for you
Free PDF version of my articles
Highly customizable inbox
That's --> free <-- and you help me!

Comments

[Carlos Moreira]

It's been a while since I handle native event without a framework but if I'm right you can get a input value inside the form form the event using input name

form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
const inputValue = e.target.inputName.value;
});

[Mertcan Yücel]

Great post!
Once you are done creating your HTML form, you can use services like Getform.io to setup an action URL to handle your form submissions.

[Lorenzo]

Thanks for your comment!
Just a question, where are you coming from?
This was my first article (published around 2 months ago) and I don't understand why I just made 500 views in two days.

[Mertcan Yücel]

I came across to your post from the Dev.to's search actually. I was checking out the HTML Form tags and ran into your post.
Btw, I have sent an email for possible collaboration opportunity to the email address under your profile. I hope you check and get back to me :)
Cheers!

[Lorenzo]

Sure I will!

[PBt]

If you are making a HTML form 'like a pro' then you have to ensure its WCAG21 compliant
w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/

[Lorenzo]

I'll check, thank for sharing