10-CreatingForm.md

Lab 10: Creating a Form to Edit Your Data

Objectives

• Create a form component
• Render the form component

Steps

Create a form component

1. Add the following CSS style to to set the width of the form.

   src\index.css

   form {
     min-width: 300px;
   }

2. Create the file src\projects\ProjectForm.js.

3. Implement a ProjectForm class component that meets the following specifications:

   • Paste the HTML below into the render method of the ProjectForm and use your editor and the link below to identify the changes needed to the HTML to make it JSX.

     DOM Element vs JSX Element Differences

     We will pass the project object as a prop in a later lab so you just need to render the HTML from the previous step as JSX.

     <form class="input-group vertical">
       <label for="name">Project Name</label>
       <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="enter name" />
       <label for="description">Project Description</label>
     
       <textarea name="description" placeholder="enter description"></textarea>
       <label for="budget">Project Budget</label>
     
       <input type="number" name="budget" placeholder="enter budget" />
       <label for="isActive">Active?</label>
       <input type="checkbox" name="isActive" />
     
       <div class="input-group">
         <button class="primary bordered medium">Save</button>
         <span></span>
         <button type="button" class="bordered medium">cancel</button>
       </div>
     </form>

     Solution

     src\projects\ProjectForm.js

     import React from 'react';
     
     function ProjectForm() {
       return (
         <form className="input-group vertical">
           <label htmlFor="name">Project Name</label>
           <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="enter name" />
           <label htmlFor="description">Project Description</label>
           <textarea name="description" placeholder="enter description" />
           <label htmlFor="budget">Project Budget</label>
           <input type="number" name="budget" placeholder="enter budget" />
           <label htmlFor="isActive">Active?</label>
           <input type="checkbox" name="isActive" />
           <div className="input-group">
             <button className="primary bordered medium">Save</button>
             <span />
             <button type="button" className="bordered medium">
               cancel
             </button>
           </div>
         </form>
       );
     }
     
     export default ProjectForm;

Render the form component

1. Open the file src\projects\ProjectList.js.

2. Render the ProjectForm component below the ProjectCard.

   src\projects\ProjectList.js

   ...
   + import ProjectForm from './ProjectForm';
   ...
   function ProjectList ({ projects }) {
       const items = projects.map(project => (
         <div key={project.id} className="cols-sm">
           <ProjectCard project={project}></ProjectCard>
   +       <ProjectForm />
         </div>
       ));
       return <div className="row">{items}</div>;
   }
   ...

3. Verify a form renders under each card in the application. Note, you may need to reload the application a few times to see the changes on this step.

   

---

✔ You have completed Lab 10