Initialization

To add dhtmlxForm into an application, you need to take the following simple steps:

Download the Form package and unpack it into a folder of your project
Include source files
Create a container
Define Form structure
Initialize Form with the object constructor

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>How to Start with dhtmlxForm</title>         
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/suite.js"></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/suite.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="form_container"></div>
        <script>            // creating dhtmlxForm
            var form = new dhx.Form("form");
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Related sample: Form. Initialization

Include source files

Create an HTML file and place full paths to JS and CSS files of the dhtmlxSuite library into the header of the file. The files are:

suite.js
suite.css

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/suite.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/suite.css">

Create a container

Add a container for the Form and give it an id, e.g. "form_container":

<div id="form_container"></div>

Define Form structure

Now you need to specify the list of Form controls. For example, you can create a form with two text fields for entering a name and an email, a checkbox for the user to give consent to data processing and a button to send a form to a server.

Thus, the structure of your form will look like this:

a Name input
an Email input
an Agree checkbox
a Send button

Form structure

To add controls inside a form, you should put them into a layout, either a vertical one (the rows attribute), or a horizontal one (the cols attribute). In the example below controls are arranged vertically, one under another:

var form_data = {
    rows:[
        {
            id: "name",
            name: "name",
            type: "input",
            label: "Name",
            icon: "dxi-magnify",
            placeholder: "John Doe"
        },
        {
            id:"email",
            name:"email", 
            type: "input",
            label: "Email",
            placeholder: "jd@mail.name"
        },
        {
            type: "checkbox",
            label: "I agree",
            name: "agree",
            labelInline: true,
            id: "agree",
            value: "checkboxvalue",
        },
        {
            type: "button",
            value: "Send",
            size: "medium",
            view: "flat",
            color: "primary"
        }
    ]
};

Initialize Form

Initialize Form with the dhx.Form object constructor. The constructor takes two parameters:

the HTML object on the page that serves as the form container.
a configuration object which (besides config options) contains an array of form controls defined as objects with a set of attributes

var form = new dhx.Form("form_container", {
    css: "dhx_widget--bordered",
    rows: [
        {
            type: "input",
            label: "Name",
            icon: "dxi dxi-magnify",
            placeholder: "John Doe",
            name: "name"
        },
        // more form controls
    ]
});

Related sample: Form. Initialization

Configuration properties:

align	sets the alignment of controls inside the control group
cols	arranges controls inside the control group horizontally
css	the name of a CSS class(es) applied to the control group
disabled	makes a form disabled
height	sets the height of the control group
hidden	defines whether a form is hidden
padding	sets padding for content inside the control group
rows	arranges controls inside the control group vertically
title	specifies the title of the control group
width	sets the width of the control group