Glowing Text Validation Primer Tutorial

Glowing Text Validation Primer Tutorial

Glowing Text Validation Primer Tutorial

Yesterday’s application of the use of CSS brilliance of W3School’s glowing text idea with Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial was just one idea regarding the use of glowing text. What about using it with form validation?

Yes, that’s “a goer” … see, even the pamplettes are nodding. The reason, of course, is that glowing text is a mechanism whereby you can grab the attention of even the most blasé of online users. And especially if the field you are “form validating” is mission critical, this could be a good ploy.

See how we apply this (by making mistakes filling in the forms) with …


Previous relevant Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial

Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial

We’ve got one of those pretty simple “click ‘em up” games for you today, inspired by the CSS brilliance of W3School’s glowing text idea, thanks.

That set us to thinking of Emojis we could apply (in front of the great background ideas derived from this advice) and looked up Emojipedia (is good for looking up Emoji names or concepts in words) and onto FileFormat Information (is great for HTML Entity determinations for your less complex Emojis) and even Iemoji (is great for HTML Entity determinations for Emojis of all complexities) to determine some components to our game, those being …

  • 🌟 … star
  • ☄️ … comet
  • 🌕 … moon

… which, in turn, led to thoughts regarding a game …

  • for one player
  • that rewards fast reflexes … and …
  • scores via onclick event logic on each component
  • according to levels of difficulty … and …
  • lessens the score for “blazing away” clicks (or touches) … for that, if a player score is (made up of) score/goes then “goes” is incremented by any document.body onclick event during the game

Levels of difficulty … pour quoi? Well, we can change the …

  • Emoji font-size … and/or …
  • Movement potential of emoji (in pixels) in any “setTimeout(movecomponents, 100);” 1/10th of a second call cycle

Have a go of today’s shooting_star_game.html game if you like, to see this in action.

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