Weekly Task - HTML5 Forms

The purpose of this task is to increase your understanding of HTML5 forms and validation. Today we'll be focusing on HTML only, there will be no need to style the forms using CSS

We'll also be considering the legal requirements of collecting personal information

1 IMPORTANT - IOC Considerations

For the TCA you'll be required to take in a few bits of preprepared information. One of which will be legal the legal considerations of a company collecting information

Please consider your data protection requirements, setting up a website. To make this more realistic, please write it from the following perspective:

• You own a small web development business
• You're making a website to promote your business to clients. You'll have a form on the website generating business leads.

Write no more than 3 paragraphs summarising you data protection requirements:

• You can use The IOC check list to help you

• When you're done, check with your tutor that you work is sufficient. Rememeber, store it in a safe place, you'll need it for the TCA.

2 Creating a form

2.1 Setup

• Create a week8 folder on your u drive
• Within your week8 folder create a index.html file and populate with the basic HTML5 tags. You can use the HTML5 Template as a starting point

2.2 Task

Figure 1, html form

• Create the form in Figure 1, we're not focusing on css this week

• Consider the following:

  • <p> tags should be used to create separate lines
  • Each <input> should have a label with a for attribute

• Your form must comply to the below specification

• Use <p> tags to separate inputs
• The form should have a method of post and an action sending it to google.com
• Note, the input names are the names attributed to each input, they are independent of the information displayed to the user. For example:

<input type='text' name='name'>