Enabling client-side validation on forms

Client-side validation is one of the most important things in each and every web or mobile application; it helps to validate the data on the client side before a request is sent to the server. In this section, we'll look at how to validate a form on the client side using JavaScript.

In this section, we'll create a web form to onboard a new employee and will apply client-side validation before we save the data in a Business Object.

The following are the high-level steps to execute this use case:

1. Create a web form.
2. Create JavaScript to validate the web form.
3. Implement the logic to validate the form and insert data into the Business Object.

We'll look at the preceding steps in detail in the upcoming sections.

Creating a new web form

The following are the steps to create a new web form:

1. Create a new page with the main-onboard-employee Page ID under the chapter7 web application.
2. Create...