Skip to content
  • Unlock Pro
  • Log in with GitHub
Solution
Submitted 7 days ago

Form validation with vanilla JS

P
JiaHe35354•160
@JiaHe35354
A solution to the Newsletter sign-up form with success message challenge
View live sitePreview (opens in new tab)View codeCode (opens in new tab)

Solution retrospective


What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I'm most proud of implementing custom form validation messages using the Constraint Validation API. It was a great learning experience to enhance user feedback in a clean and accessible way. Next time, I'd like to try building the entire form validation logic from scratch — without relying on the built-in browser validation — to deepen my understanding of form behavior and JavaScript control flow.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

One of the biggest challenges was implementing custom validation messages. It required more code and logic than I expected to get everything working smoothly. To overcome this, I read the Client-side form validation article on MDN, experimented with the examples, and kept testing until I finally got it working. It was very rewarding to see it all come together!

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

I'm interested in feedback on:

JavaScript structure and logic: Are there ways I could simplify or improve how I’ve handled form validation and DOM updates?

Code
Select a file

Please log in to post a comment

Log in with GitHub

Community feedback

  • Rneb•150
    @nerb0
    Posted 7 days ago
    • For DOM Manipulation, it's better practice to use id attribute and getElementById() for specific single query selection.
    • Also, reference the style-guide.md file for the width of the css media queries.

Join our Discord community

Join thousands of Frontend Mentor community members taking the challenges, sharing resources, helping each other, and chatting about all things front-end!

Join our Discord

Stay up to datewith new challenges, featured solutions, selected articles, and our latest news

Frontend Mentor

  • Unlock Pro
  • Contact us
  • FAQs
  • Become a partner

Explore

  • Learning paths
  • Challenges
  • Solutions
  • Articles

Community

  • Discord
  • Guidelines

For companies

  • Hire developers
  • Train developers
© Frontend Mentor 2019 - 2025
  • Terms
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • License

Oops! 😬

You need to be logged in before you can do that.

Log in with GitHub

Oops! 😬

You need to be logged in before you can do that.

Log in with GitHub

How does the accessibility report work?

When a solution is submitted, we use axe-core to run an automated audit of your code.

This picks out common accessibility issues like not using semantic HTML and not having proper heading hierarchies, among others.

This automated audit is fairly surface level, so we encourage to you review the project and code in more detail with accessibility best practices in mind.

How does the CSS report work?

When a solution is submitted, we use stylelint to run an automated check on the CSS code.

We've added some of our own linting rules based on recommended best practices. These rules are prefixed with frontend-mentor/ which you'll see at the top of each issue in the report.

The report will audit all CSS, SCSS and Less files in your repository.

How does the HTML validation report work?

When a solution is submitted, we use html-validate to run an automated check on the HTML code.

The report picks out common HTML issues such as not using headings within section elements and incorrect nesting of elements, among others.

Note that the report can pick up “invalid” attributes, which some frameworks automatically add to the HTML. These attributes are crucial for how the frameworks function, although they’re technically not valid HTML. As such, some projects can show up with many HTML validation errors, which are benign and are a necessary part of the framework.

How does the JavaScript validation report work?

When a solution is submitted, we use eslint to run an automated check on the JavaScript code.

The report picks out common JavaScript issues such as not using semicolons and using var instead of let or const, among others.

The report will audit all JS and JSX files in your repository. We currently do not support Typescript or other frontend frameworks.

Oops! 😬

You need to be logged in before you can do that.

Log in with GitHub