Frontend Mentor - Intro component with sign up form solution

This is a solution to the Intro component with sign up form 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:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • Any input field is empty. The message for this error should say "[Field Name] cannot be empty"
  • The email address is not formatted correctly (i.e. a correct email address should have this structure: name@host.tld). The message for this error should say "Looks like this is not an email"

Screenshot

Desktop View

Links

• Github repo
• Live site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Vanilla Javascript

What I learned

• Utilizing position: absolute on an element within a position: relative container can help line up icons or pictures in relation to their container regardless of size
• Abstracting functions in JS can help to reduce amount of copy-pasting
• Utilizing the built-in methods such as document.querySelector, document.getElementByID, element.classList.remove or the element.parentElement, element.innerText properties help to manipulate the dom elements dynamically through js

Continued development

Concepts I Encountered that I would like to explore further...

• Position absolute vs/with position relative
• Pseudo-elements ::before, ::after
• Dom-manipulation through JS

Useful resources

• Regexr - This helped me create regex to use for form validations.
• CSS Cheat Sheet - Great website for all things css, also has a html and js cheatsheet too.

Author

• Website - Christopher d'Arcy
• Frontend Mentor - @cmdarcy