Guide: Login Page with HTML5 Forms: Tips and Tutorial

HTML5 offers a range of new features and improvements to web forms, including new attributes and input types, designed to make life easier for developers and provide users with an improved experience.

The new HTML5 forms feature allows users to create a login page with ease. This post will explore how to use this technology.

HTML5 input

What markers can tell us? Let’s examine them.

Working with HTML forms? You’ll recognize the familiar, but there are differences. HTML5 introduces new attributes like placeholder and required for inputs.

Placeholder

The placeholder attribute simplifies the process of providing initial text in an input field, which previously required JavaScript. When the field is in focus or filled in, the placeholder text disappears.

Required attribute

Users must fill in the required field before submitting the form, or an error message will appear.

CSS3 has introduced a new selector, allowing developers to target fields with the required attribute. For example:

A red border of one pixel thickness is required.

Type of email entry

The HTML5 email field type provides a standard way to validate email addresses. If the user does not enter an email address, the browser will display an error message.

Email input types can improve the user experience for mobile users, such as those with iPhones and Androids, by providing an optimized on-screen keyboard with a special button to speed up typing.

The cons

HTML5 offers powerful and easy-to-implement shape features, yet some areas remain unsupported. For instance,

Modern browsers such as Firefox 3.7+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+ and Opera 11+ support the temporary attribute, but if you need it to work in unsupported browsers, you can use polyfills with Modernizr.

Users of older browsers may encounter an unhelpful error message when attempting to fill out a form field that requires an attribute: “Please fill in this field” instead of a personalized message such as “Enter your first name.” This attribute support is only available on the latest browsers.

JavaScript is the best choice for validating required fields, according to current evidence.

A form validation function has been created to ensure users enter a username before submitting. If no username is entered, an alert will appear prompting the user to do so.

Design of the forms

Give the login form a wood pattern background by adding CSS to the HTML tag.

The HTML element has a background image of wood pattern and a font size of 10 points.

To make the input elements appear side by side, we must remove the default padding and margin from the ul tag that wraps them, and float the li elements to the left.

The .loginform class has been given a set of styling rules to ensure that the elements within it are displayed correctly: padding and margin have been set to zero, and elements have been set to display inline and float left.

The clearfix hack must be employed to prevent the collapse of parents when using the float property.

The CSS code for label elements has been updated to display as a block, with a color of #999. Additionally, the code for the “cf: before” and “cf: after” elements has been changed to display as a table.

The use of clear and zoom properties in CSS can help to focus elements on a page.

CSS3’s negation selector can be used to target inputs other than the shipping type, such as email and password.

The loginform input elements, excluding the submit type, have been given a padding of 5px, a margin-right of 10px, a border of 1px with an rgba color of 0, 0, 0 and opacity of 0.3 and a border radius of 3px. Additionally, they have been given a box-shadow with bet values of 0px 1px 3px 0px rgba (0,0,0) and opacity of 0.1 as well as another box-shadow value with rgba color 250 250 250 and opacity at 0.5.

The To send button has been given a style trim.

The submit button of the .loginform entry has a border of 1px solid rgba (0, 0, 0, 0.3), a background gradient from #64c8ef to #00a2e2, white text color with a 3px border radius and text shadow of 1px 1px 0px rgba (0, 0, 0, 0.3). It also has 5px 15px padding and 15px margin-top.

Users can now access the login form via the provided links.

Final Words

HTML5 forms offer new features such as placeholder, requirement and email input types to create a login page. However, drawbacks of these attributes must be considered when deciding which approach to take.

Stay tuned for an upcoming post exploring a new HTML5 form feature.

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