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From Scratch Web Games: A Beginners Guide to Game Development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Chapter 5.1: Cheat Sheet

One of the original reasons for using HTML was for having the user submit information back to the server in the form of forms. The use of JavaScript allows us to make use of these forms without having to send the information back to a server so even though we are not going to be covering server-side programming in this book, forms are still very useful.

The purpose of the cheat sheet is to give you a summary of the main aspects of HTML Forms and assumes that you are already familiar with the earlier HTML Basics chapter. If you are not sure if you should read through this chapter, take a look at the cheat sheet provided and if you fully understand what is in the cheat sheet then feel free to skim or skip this chapter. I urge those readers to attempt the project just to make sure they really do understand the material but that is up to you.

The cheat sheet is located here and is in my github repository located at https://github.com/BillySpelchan/FromScratchHTML_CSS_JS.

Chapter contents

Chapter 5 Contents

5.1 Forms Cheat Sheets

This chapter's summary cheat sheet.

5.2 The client-server model

How forms are traditionally used.

5.3 The Form tag

How to set up a form in HTML.

5.4 Inputting text

Getting text input from the user.

5.5 Specialized text formats

Making your input fields more specific and semantic.

5.6 Form cosmetics

Making forms look more like printed forms.

5.7 checkboxes & radio buttons

Coming September 15th.

5.8 Numbers and Dates

Coming September 22nd.

5.9 special purpose input types

Coming September 29th.

5.10 Option Select

Coming October 6th.

5.11 Data Lists

Coming October 20th.

5.12 Output

Coming October 27th.

5.13 dialog box concepts

Coming November 3rd.

5.14 using dialog boxes

Coming November 17th.

5.15 Validating forms

Coming November 24th.

5.16 processing forms as an array

Coming December 1st.

5.17 Project: Trivia

Coming December 8th.

5.18 Trivia Project Solution

Coming December 15th.

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