Web Forms – Build & Master HTML Web forms In 2025

An advanced Web Forms course for everyone! Master URL encoding, form elements, GET vs POST, form validation and more

Created by: Clyde Matthew
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What Will I Learn?

• Why web forms are the MONEY PAGES of websites
• Tons of practical examples and fun challenges to make learning easy
• Learn how to send form data to a web server
• Understanding how to build web forms from scratch with pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Master client-side validation by using both HTML and JavaScript
• Understand how to create custom error messages with the ConstraintValidation
• Learn about HTTP and how it relates to HTML
• Learn how to use AJAX to submit form data to a server
• Practical examples - build many dynamic front-end forms with me
• I am here to support you and bring you to the next level, step-by-step
• Learn how to extract form key:value pairs using the URLSearchParams() API
• Have fun mastering advanced front-end website development
• Design and create forms to get the response you desire, be successful
• Understand the CSS Box Model, the CSS Grid and pseudo classes and pseudo elements
• Learn about the different form controls available
• Master the types like text, password, email, tel, color, date, number and more!
• Master non form controls like textarea, output, progress & meter bars, and more!
• Learn why the browser implement URL Encoding when a user submits a form
• Understand URL encoding
• Understand how a server receives data from a form
• Learn how to start a PHP server and receive form data (real example)
• Learn how to start a Node server and receive form data (real example)
• Understand why a user can type international characters into your form even though URL encoding specifies it has to be ASCII characters
• Learn how to build envied forms with elements like and
• Learn how to view HTTP request header and body information
• Learn about the attributes (such as action, method, autocomplete, novalidate, enctype, REL, and more)
• Understand why a GET request appends the form data to the URL
• Learn why the browser appends the form data to the body of the HTTP request on a POST request
• Doing help learning and we work through lots of examples together
• Understand multipart/form-data and why do you need it when uploading files
• Understand the difference between radio buttons and checkboxes
• Understand how to listen for events on form controls (such as the input or change event)
• Build dropdown controls, progress bars, meter bars, and a whole bunch more
• Learn how to listen for different types of events, such as submit, input, change, etc.
• Understand the ACTION and METHOD attributes
• Understand the accept-charset (ISO vs ASCII) attribute
• Learn about Numerical Character References
• Easily master the original types (such as password, text, hidden and more)
• Learn how to build functional forms using , and
• Learn the 2 ways to create submit buttons on forms
• Be an expert on the newer types like email, search, tel, number, date and more!
• FUN CHALLENGES throughout the course (where we build custom toggles, checkboxes, color pickers and more)
• From beginner to expert (advanced +)
• Gain the knowledge to achieve and lead
• Gives you depth of knowledge to boost your ability and confidence

Requirements

• A desire to become an informed full stack web developer
• Basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript will be helpful, but not absolutely necessary
• A Mac or PC is required as you need to code alongside me to learn effectively

Target audience

• Everybody
• Everybody who wants to know more about web forms
• Everybody who knows about web forms but wishes they knew more
• YES: This course is for beginners too. Aimed at people new to the world of web development. No previous JavaScript experience is necessary
• NO: This course is NOT only for beginners. It is a complete beginner to advanced master course that is suitable for intermediates who know the basics and have an idea about how to build forms, but want to dig deeper to know its inner workings. Knowledge is power, as they say. Experienced students sometimes prefer to skip a section that they are very familiar with
• YES: This course is for someone wanting to be an informed professional, to be expert and confident in the entire front-end development process when it comes to building forms
• Those who want to learn modern coding without third party libraries and frameworks
• Those interested in building their own frameworks, or being better able to learn from the source code of other well-known frameworks and libraries
• Those wanting to start using frameworks (like Angular or Node) that are heavily reliant on JavaScript and knowing the process flow of front-end web development
• Those who have some knowledge of forms, but little in-depth know-how about how it all works behind the scenes, and how to practically implement best practices in their websites to stay in front