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Exercise 46

  • Create the following folder/file structure:
/ex_46
  |-- index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Form Properties</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form
      action="save_usuario.html"
      method="post"
      enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
      name="login"
    >
      <select id="countries">
        <option value="1">Argentina</option>
        <option value="2">Brazil</option>
        <option value="3">Canada</option>
        <option value="4">Colombia</option>
      </select>
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

index.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
  • Add a submit event handler to prevent the default form behaviour
  • Show the following message when the user submits the form:
%selectedCountry% has been selected and it has %optionValue% as id

Tip​

  • Remember you can get an element innerText to get the content