Frontend Mentor - Newsletter sign-up form with success message solution

This is a solution to the Newsletter sign-up form with success message challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• Add their email and submit the form
• See a success message with their email after successfully submitting the form
• See form validation messages if:
  • The field is left empty
  • The email address is not formatted correctly
• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Screenshot of Solution

Desktop Desktop Active Desktop-Success-Active Mobile

Links

• GitHub URL
• Link to the site

My process

Built with

• Mobile-first workflow
• Form Validation
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• CSS custom properties

What I learned

• Form Validation. I get to learn and apply html forms and form validation with javascript.
• Using GET requests. I tried to use the GET request to access another HTML file for the success message to see if it will work and thankfully it did with Github pages.

Continued development

• Javascript
• Functions
• Events
• CSS selectors
• Pseudoelements and variables
• Responsive Design
• SASS CSS
• React

Useful resources

• HTML/CSS by supersimpledev - This helped me learn HTML and CSS in a clear and concise manner. His examples and exercises are top-notch. This course is very beginner friendly so I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn HTML/CSS.

• HTML/CSS etc Documentation - This is a great resource if you want an in-depth description of html tags, elements, css properties, etc.

Author

• Website - Roylan Dexter Camu
• Frontend Mentor - @RDCamu