HTML5 Forms Tutorial & Exercises

By @alesanchezr and other contributors at 4Geeks Academy

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You can open these exercises in one click using codespaces or gitpod.

Forms are so important in the world of HTML, CSS and Javascript that I decided to give them a special course to focus in all the inputs, buttons and elements that HTML brings by default to focus on interaction. During these exercises you will learn the following:

1. How to use text inputs, text areas, date inputs and numeric inputs.

2. How to use dropdowns.

3. How to form preventive validations.

4. The difference between GET and POST.

5. Styling a form.

Before we start... other related tutorials

1. Learn HTML
2. Learn HTML5 Forms← 🔥 You are here now
3. Learn CSS
4. Learn CSS Layouts
5. Learn Bootstrap

One click installation (recommended):

You can open these exercises in just a few seconds by clicking: Open in Codespaces (recommended) or Open in Gitpod.

Once you have VSCode open the LearnPack exercises should start automatically. If exercises don't run automatically you can try typing on your terminal: $ learnpack start

Local installation

Clone the repository in your local environment and follow the steps below:

1. Install LearnPack, the package manager for learning tutorials and the HTML compiler plugin for LearnPack, make sure you also have node.js 14+:

$ npm i learnpack -g
$ learnpack plugins:install learnpack-html

2. Download these particular exercises using LearnPack and cd into the folder:

$ learnpack download html-forms-tutorial-exercises
$ cd html-forms-tutorial-exercises

Note: Once you finish downloading, you will find an "exercises" folder that contains all the exercises within.

3. Start the tutorial/exercises by running the following command at the same level where your learn.json file is:

$ npm i [email protected] -g
$ learnpack start

How are the exercises organized?

Each exercise is a small React application containing the following files:

1. index.html: represents the entry file for the entire exercise.
2. README.md: contains exercise instructions.
3. test.js: you don't have to open this file, it contains the testing script for the exercise.

Note: The exercises have automatic grading, but it's very rigid and strict, my recommendation is to not take the tests too serious and use them only as a suggestion, or you may get frustrated.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

1. Alejandro Sanchez (alesanchezr), contribution: (coder) 💻 (idea) 🤔, (build-tests) ⚠️ , (pull-request-review) 🤓 (build-tutorial) ✅ (documentation) 📖

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

This and many other exercises are built by students as part of the 4Geeks Academy Coding Bootcamp by Alejandro Sánchez and many other contributors. Find out more about our Full Stack Developer Course, and Data Science Bootcamp.