- Create the following folder/file structure:
/ex_44
|-- index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Form Properties</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="save_user.html" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="login">
<input type="text" id="username" name="username" />
<input type="password" id="pass" name="pass" />
<button>Show Username and Password</button>
</form>
<div></div>
</body>
</html>
- Create a basic HTML document
- Create a script tag on the document head element
- Select the form element using any of the JavaScript selectors
- Define a variable for each form element
- Using the form elements property set each variable the right element reference
- Example: define a username variable and assign the first form element using form elements property
- Set the username to morty
- Set the password to 12345
- Add the button a click event handler to show an alert with the username and passord values
- Change the username and password values using the browser and click the button again to check that it's working