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Progressively Enhance a Form to a Modal Form

Progressively Enhance a Form to a Modal Form

With something as important as a contact form, you want it working properly for all visitors—even the JavaScript challenged. How do you handle this if you want to use a modal (pop-up) form? The answer is progressive enhancement; start with baseline, usable functionality; then increase the user experience for those who have browsers to support it.

Quick Tip: New HTML5 Form Features
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Quick Tip: New HTML5 Form Features

In this screencast, we’ll take a quick look at a few new HTML5 features: the placeholder and autofocus tools, as well as the email and URL input types.


This entry is part 3 of 14 in the HTML5 and You Session

Creating a PayPal Payment Form

Although it can have some issues, PayPal does provide a very simple way to take payments on a website. And with a little tweaking you can easily turn a PayPal “Buy Now” button into a form where the user specifies how much they’d like to pay and what they are paying for.