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Date Published
Author
Supun Kavinda
Word count
2359
Language
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None

Summary

Websites and apps heavily rely on forms for user data collection, making it crucial for frontend developers to understand how to style them effectively with CSS while maintaining accessibility. This updated article, revised by Rahul Chhodde in February 2024, emphasizes integrating responsive design into forms and explores styling form elements like buttons and labels using CSS properties and notable CSS frameworks. It provides a comprehensive guide on enhancing HTML forms for visual appeal and user-friendliness across different browsers, using techniques such as SCSS nesting, type-based CSS selection, and pseudo-elements and classes to customize states and interactions. Additionally, it outlines the use of CSS custom properties for theming and responsive design, suggests best practices for accessibility, and offers insights into animations and layout strategies using flexbox. The article concludes by acknowledging the utility of CSS frameworks like Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and Bulma for form styling, and provides resources for further exploration, including a GitHub repository with the discussed code.