Submit buttons

Part of the JavaScript in Action section of Coddy's HTML journey — lesson 7 of 27.

Submit buttons are essential elements in HTML forms that allow users to send form data to a server for processing.

Create a basic HTML form with a submit button:

<form id="myForm">
  <input type="text" placeholder="Enter your name">
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

The type="submit" attribute specifies that the button should submit the form when clicked.

You can also use JavaScript to handle form submissions:

const form = document.getElementById('myForm');

form.addEventListener('submit', function(event) {
  event.preventDefault(); // Prevents the default form submission
  console.log('Form submitted!'); // This prints a message in the console
});

The preventDefault() method stops the form from submitting in the traditional way, allowing you to handle the submission with JavaScript.

Challenge

Easy

Your task:

Add a Submit button to the form with type="submit"
Inside the submit event listener, use the message variable to set the text content to "Submitted successfully"

Try it yourself

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Submit buttons</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <form id="myForm">
    <h2>Sign Up</h2>
    <input type="text" id="email" placeholder="Enter your email">
    <p id="emailMessage" class="message"></p>

  </form>
  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>