W12 // FORMS AND INPUTS
NOV 4 · Ch 6 Sec 1-5 · DUE: Working form page
This week's deckPPTX
// RUN OF SHOW (8:45-10:15)
8:45
Stand-up: last week's deliverable graded, questions answered
9:20
At the keyboard: guided type-along
9:45
Build time: assignment or project work
10:10
Close: commit, push, and preview next week's reading
// THE POINT THIS WEEK
Why forms matter. The form element. Inputs, types, validation, radio and checkbox.
// TALKING POINTS
Forms are conversations
- A form gathers input and submits it somewhere
- Inputs need name attributes or their data travels nameless and lost
- Watch the URL after a GET submit: your form wrote a query string
The input family
- text, password, radio, checkbox: one tag, many personalities
- Radios sharing a name become an either/or group
- Labels aren't decoration: click one and watch its input take focus
// LINKS