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Step 3 of 8: Build a basic prototype

Link your pages together

To take users from one page to another, you will use either:

  • links – either <a> tags or button components with an href attribute
  • forms – a <form> tag, used when submitting form data

The method used will depend on whether the page is submitting form data (radios, text inputs, etc) to the server. Otherwise we use links.

Link your start page to question 1

  1. Open start-page.html in your app/views folder.
  2. Find the button component. This will start with {{ button({ and have ‘Start now’ inside.
  3. Change the value of the href attribute from # to /magical-powers.

Go to http://localhost:3000/start-page and select the Start now button to check it works.

Links normally appear as text with underlines. We make ‘Start now’ look like a button to make it more obvious to users.

  1. Open magical-powers.html in your app/views folder.
  2. Find the line <form action="/form-handler" method="post" novalidate>.
  3. Change the value of the action attribute from /form-handler to /details.

Go to http://localhost:3000/magical-powers and select Continue to check the button works.

The /details page will look the same as the /magical-powers page because we copied the same code in, but you should see the URL change.

This time it’s a real HTML button, not a link. Buttons submit form data – the URL is on the form tag, not the button.

Link question 2 to your ‘Check answers’ page

  1. Open details.html in your app/views folder.
  2. Find the line <form action="/form-handler" method="post" novalidate>.
  3. Change the value of the action attribute from /form-handler to /check-your-answers.

Go to http://localhost:3000/details and select Continue to check the button works.

Link ‘Check your answers’ to your ‘Confirmation’ page

  1. Open check-your-answers.html in your app/views folder.
  2. Find the <form> tag button component inside.
  3. Change the value of the action attribute from /form-handler to /confirmation-page.

Go to http://localhost:3000/check-your-answers and select Confirm and send to check the button works.

Note:

The back links in your pages do not go to the correct places yet. If you want, you can try and update the links by using the back link component guidance.