A Beginner’s Guide To Styling CSS Forms
In this article, readers will use a tutorial to learn how to style CSS forms in different ways and the nuances of each option, including code and visuals.
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Join For FreeTo put it in simple terms, an HTML, or web forms, are referred to as web elements that are designed to enable users to put in their information, which may include their names, age, gender, credit card number, etc., which is then sent to a server for processing.
Web forms are very useful and are now a very important aspect of web development. Imagine having to travel to a foreign country just to fill out a form because you want to apply for a course in their university. Since every modern university has a website with a form, students can sit in the comfort of their homes and apply within their convenient time, saving them the time to visit the school in person. Next, the school collects this information to decide if the candidate is qualified to study at their university.
Web forms are not limited to schools only, businesses, such as banks and e-commerce, to mention a few, use web forms to collect information from their customers. This helps them decide how to serve the needs of their customers better. This is exactly what web forms are designed to do—collect information for processing.
In this tutorial on CSS Forms, we will take a closer look at how to style forms with CSS and much more.
Prerequisites for Styling CSS Forms
By the end of this tutorial, you will be in a position to build a form in HTML that is styled using CSS. However, a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required to understand this article.
Here is a sample of the finished project of what we’ll be building.
Here is the link to CodePen for this styling CSS Form project’s source code.
Creating HTML Boilerplates
Let’s start by creating the website boilerplates (that is, the HTML code structure for the website). This contains the head and body tags, as seen below: