How to Customize a Login Form
Most computer users who spend time on the Internet have created a user account for one website or another. It allows them to quickly access members-only information and reduces the amount of time that it takes to purchase a product. For web designers, creating these login forms is a common task, but it often requires customization. Fortunately, web forms were created as part of the HTML language with numerous options for designers to personalize.
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Instructions
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Open your web editing program and either create a new page or open the page where you will be entering the login form.
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Navigate to the "creating a custom login for your website page." (See "References.")
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Copy the information in the gray box, starting at "<form name>" and ending at "</form>". Paste it into the page you opened in your web editing program.
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Replace the "https://www.quickbase.com" URLs with the addresses that your login form will be utilizing. Depending on your own needs, you can probably delete the two pieces of code that begin with "<input type="hidden"".
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Set the length of each input field by adding "maxlength="10"" after the "name="username"" and "name="password"" settings. You can change the "10" variable to whatever character length you would like.
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Change the "Login:" and "Password:" wording to coincide with the information that your login form will require. Examples of this could be "Username:" and "Security key:".
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Alter the "value="Enter"" setting to your own preference. Other options might include "value="Submit"" or "value="Login"".
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Tips & Warnings
In order to retrieve login credentials, it is necessary to create a database of usernames and passwords that this login form will check against. For more information on the options available to you for database access, contact your web hosting provider.
Consider adding error handling lines to your code to handle incorrect logins. This code will vary depending on the type of scripting language you are using to check your database.
Security of user information should be a top priority. Make sure that any login or registration form is sending encrypted data.
