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Form Validation Techniques

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This link appeared in WDRL 142 on 24.06.2016.

Form Validation Techniques

Client-side form validation is hard, we all know that. But thanks to the browsers’ internal validation API, we can display very clever messages telling the user what went wrong. This article shows how to do that effectively and even offers a boilerplate.