Coursework 1: Client-Side Programming

Coursework 1: Client-Side Programming

Formally issued on: Tuesday 21st February, 2012.

Due date: Session on Thursday 15th March, 2012.

The Exercise

<html><!– 2008-2011: Develop, test and validate an HTML5 document that acts as a registration form for a web application. The registration form should request a user name, contact email address, and a password.

The user name must be a single word which starts with a lower-case letter and contains lowercase letters, or a mixture of lower-case letters and numbers (e.g. chris, joe90). There should be no punctuation characters or embedded whitespace in the user name;
The email address must be a valid internet email address;
The password must be at least 8 characters in length, should contain any combination of numbers, punctuation (including whitespace) and upper and lower-case letters;
For security, the password must contain at least one number or punctuation character;
The password must be confirmed by typing it twice.

You must have event handlers for the form elements that collect this information that check the input data for correctness.

Messages must be produced when any errors are detected and the offending control should gain focus: alert boxes can be used for this purpose although extra credit will be given if DHTML is used to ensure that the messages appear in the document itself.
The error messages should be clear in reporting the corrective action to be taken by the user.
Validation checks on individual form fields should be triggered by loss of focus.
The submit button should be labelled “Register” and it should:
- run all validation checks, return focus to the first offending field and prevent data submission if there are errors.
- send the form data to URL http://www.cpjobling.me/cgi-bin/echo_form.cgi if the data is valid.
The reset button should be labelled “Cancel” and should return the form to its initial state. –></html>

Your company wants an efficient way of processing employee expense claims. It has decided to use create a web app on its Intranet for this purpose. You are to create an expenses submission form with the following features:

There must be fields to capture the employee's name, company mobile phone, company email and employee number (which matches the pattern [A-Z]{2}-\d{3}-\d{4}[A-Z]).
The expenses will be set out in a table with initially 3 rows, for each expense you need
- Date
- Description
- Cost
- Receipt available? Y/N
There should be a total claim submitted row and the total amounts claimed should be computed automatically.
There should be a button that adds an extra row to the expenses form if three items is insufficient.
It should not be possible to submit an invalid form.
- Employee details, apart from company mobile are required fields
- Email, mobile and employee number should be in the correct format
- There should be at least one receipted expense claim
- Each expense must have a date and description and cost must be a decimal number with two decimal digits.
The form should calculate two costs when the expense amount in any row is changed:
- expenses for which receipts are available
- expenses for which receipts are not available which will be displayed as “manager approval required”

You should think about the names that you will be passing to the server-side of the web app in the choice of your field names.

Where possible, all error messages should display in the form and be highlighted by colour changes and change of focus.

Hint: Start by creating the form in HTML5 and then write the JavaScript to make it work. Use the new HTML5 input types and form validation attributes where supported.

Submission Details

You should develop your solution in a single HTML5 file and submit a paper copy to me at the start of the contact hour session along with a copy of the attached submission cover sheet; this will be returned to you with feedback. You should also submit me an electronic copy of the HTML5 file and any external CSS and JavaScript library files that you have used, packaged in a single zip file using the Assignment Tool on Blackboard. I will use this version for testing.

A maximum of 5 marks will be awarded if I am not provided with the electronic version for testing.

How this Work will be Assessed

JavaScript must be used for the expenses calculation but you can and should use the new HTML5 form elements and validation attributes where appropriate. For extra credit you will provide JavaScript alternatives to these if the browser doesn't support them. Hint: use the modernzr library to check for the availability of the required attributes and elements.

You may assume that JavaScript will be turned on … but should provide a warning message to the user if it isn't!

There will be:

7 marks for successful completion of the exercise;
1 mark for valid HTML 5;
1 mark for creative use of CSS;
1 marks if the names you choose for your form elements will work well server-side.
2 marks extra credit will be given if you implement your active code using the jQuery library.
3 marks extra credit will be awarded if your form is able to use JavaScript where the necessary HTML5 form elements and attributes are not provided.

Late submissions will not be marked.

Table of Contents

Coursework 1: Client-Side Programming

The Exercise

Submission Details

How this Work will be Assessed