revealing prototype pattern
HTML
<form name="form-contact" id="formContact">
<div>
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
</div>
<div>
<label for="mail">E-mail:</label>
<input type="email" id="mail" name="user_mail">
</div>
<div>
<label for="msg">Message:</label>
<textarea id="msg" name="user_message"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="button">
<button type="submit">Send your message</button>
</div>
</form>
CSS
form {
/* Just to center the form on the page */
margin: 0 auto;
width: 400px;
/* To see the outline of the form */
padding: 1em;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
border-radius: 1em;
}
form div + div {
margin-top: 1em;
}
label {
/* To make sure that all labels have the same size and are properly aligned */
display: inline-block;
width: 90px;
text-align: right;
}
input, textarea {
/* To make sure that all text fields have the same font settings
By default, textareas have a monospace font */
font: 1em sans-serif;
/* To give the same size to all text fields */
width: 300px;
box-sizing: border-box;
/* To harmonize the look & feel of text field border */
border: 1px solid #999;
}
input:focus, textarea:focus {
/* To give a little highlight on active elements */
border-color: #000;
}
textarea {
/* To properly align multiline text fields with their labels */
vertical-align: top;
/* To give enough room to type some text */
height: 5em;
}
.button {
/* To position the buttons to the same position of the text fields */
padding-left: 90px; /* same size as the label elements */
}
button {
/* This extra margin represent roughly the same space as the space
between the labels and their text fields */
margin-left: .5em;
}
JavaScript
(function ($) {
// extension method to serialize form to json object
$.fn.serializeFormJSON = function () {
var o = {};
var a = this.serializeArray();
$.each(a, function () {
if (o[this.name]) {
if (!o[this.name].push) {
o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
}
o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
} else {
o[this.name] = this.value || '';
}
});
return o;
};
})(jQuery);
var Contact = function(settings){
this.form = settings.form;
}
Contact.prototype = function(){
var self,
service = {
get: { },
post: { }
},
bindUiAction = function(){
self.form.off().on("submit", function(e){ // form subtmit
e.preventDefault(); // prevent page refresh on submit
var form = $(this);
var obj = form.serializeFormJSON(); // convert form element to json
console.log(obj);
});
},
init = function(){ // object init
self = this; // set this class to self
bindUiAction(); // initialize UI bindings
}
return {
init: init
}
}();
var settings = {
form: $("form[name='form-contact']")
};
var contact = new Contact(settings);
contact.init();