HTML5 offers form field validation support built into the HTML form input tags that should greatly reduce the need for JavaScript validation code. In this post, I look at some examples of this.

The HTML5 specification adds a new set of tools for handling web forms. Generally referred to as HTML5 Forms, the new tools enable browser-side form validation. It’s important to understand that ...

Clearly, there's nothing particularly fancy about this form from the user perspective -- until you consider that it's implemented entirely in HTML5 -- no JavaScript required. For the remainder of the ...