Forms are essential to any kind of web application development and in this post, we will learn how to handle them in Svelte by using on:submit directive.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In this post, we will learn how to handle forms in Svelte. Forms are an integral part of any web application. They are the primary way in which you collect information from the application user. Forms can enhance the user experience. Also, they can have a significant impact on the overall data quality of your application. Let us now put together the form: This is a very basic form with just two fields. We have the bookName and the author_name. Also, we have a button to submit the form. However, currently, we don’t have any handler for the same. Let us create the form submit handler: We use the on:submit handler. The preventDefault is to prevent the form submission to trigger an HTTP request as per the default form behavior.
