Creating Input Elements

Learn how to create input elements.

Example of controlling input elements

To start, we’ll create a new directory to showcase controlled inputs and changing states. We do this by creating a React application.

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$ npx create-react-app more-react
$ cd more-react

We create a form to exhibit the most common types of HTML inputs. The code uses JSX to place the HTML elements within JavaScript. This example uses the following input.

Try it yourself

Note: The following widget has a few additional files. The CSS files come built-in using the command npx create-react-app. Also, reportWebVitals.js contains a set of useful metrics that aim to capture the user experience of a web page. We’ve already run the command ...

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