OWD Proposal: revamp Form Validation documentation

[teoli2003]

Problem statement

MDN documents form validation at several places (Web/API, Web/API/Constraint_Validation, Learn Area, Web/Guide), incompletely, and with poor navigation (missing sidebars).

This is a fundamental API in Web development, quite stable.

We need a clear, complete and navigable documentation.

Proposed solutions

Let's add the missing reference page, move the guide under Constraint Validation, and eventually split it in several pages. Review the content of the Learning Area.

Task list

• [ ] Add missing Constraint Validation API reference pages (like checkValidity())) for each HTML*Element that can be validated
• [ ] Move the guide page under the overview page for Constraint Validation API page
• [ ] Create a sidebar to ease navigation
• [ ] Review/Correct and extend the guide page
• [ ] Review the overview page
• [ ] Review the section under LA about Constraint Validation
• [ ] Make sure these pages can be found (it is unlikely that people type "Constraint Validation" in a search engine; let's do some SEO here!

Priority assessment

• Effort: This is about 10-15 reference pages, and max 3 guide pages.
• Dependencies: None
• Community enablement: None
• Momentum: None
• Enabling learners: Yes, this is a fundamental skill to master to create a website
• Enabling professionals: Professionals tend to overuse JS for this
• Underrepresented topics / Ethical web: None
• Operational necessities: Missing sidebars must be fixed anyway, currently the guide is not in the bad structure.
• Addressing needs of the web industry:

More information

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[shamankayka]

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[Elchi3]

I'm closing this as not planned for the moment. Still agree there should be better form validation docs with clear navigation.

There was an "MDN content workshop (guides & learn)" on Tue Mar 26, 2024 to talk about structures etc. Maybe once we have decisions, guidelines, outcomes from that workshop we can reconsider getting engaged with better navigation for this content and reorganize some of this.