Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
851 B
851 B
Forms
- Keep forms as short as practical.
- Ask only for information that is actually required.
- Group related fields together.
- Use clear field labels.
- Do not rely on placeholders as the only label.
- Use appropriate input controls for the expected value.
- Provide useful defaults where safe and predictable.
- Preserve user input when validation or network errors occur.
- Validate fields at useful moments without interrupting normal input.
- Show validation errors close to the affected field.
- Explain how to fix invalid input.
- Avoid technical validation messages.
- Clearly mark optional fields where useful.
- Avoid asking the same information multiple times.
- Use autocomplete and autofill where appropriate.
- Make keyboard navigation logical.
- Use sensible tab order.
- Support Enter and Escape behavior where users expect it.