Welcome to a tutorial on how to create a simple seat reservation form with HTML and Javascript. Need a “nice interface” for your passenger service, room booking, or whatever it is? Well, here’s a simple example – Read on!
ⓘ I have included a zip file with all the source code at the start of this tutorial, so you don’t have to copy-paste everything… Or if you just want to dive straight in.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DOWNLOAD & NOTES
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QUICK NOTES
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SCREENSHOT
EXAMPLE CODE DOWNLOAD
Click here to download all the example source code, I have released it under the MIT license, so feel free to build on top of it or use it in your own project.
SEAT RESERVATION FORM
All right, let us now get into the reservation form example.
1) HTML PAGE
<!-- (A) SEAT LAYOUT -->
<div id="layout"></div>
<!-- (B) LEGEND -->
<div id="legend">
<div class="seat"></div> <div class="txt">Available</div>
<div class="seat taken"></div> <div class="txt">Taken</div>
<div class="seat selected"></div> <div class="txt">Your Chosen Seats</div>
</div>
<!-- (C) SAVE SELECTION -->
<button id="save" onclick="reserve.save()">Reserve Seats</button>
Don’t think this needs a lot of explanation.
- An empty
<div>
to generate the seating arrangement, we will use Javascript to do that later. - Colors for available, taken, and selected seats.
- Just a simple “save” button. Feel free to add a
<form>
and capture your own required fields – Name, email, telephone, etc…
2) THE JAVASCRIPT
var reserve = {
// (A) INIT
init : () => {
// (A1) GET LAYOUT WRAPPER
let layout = document.getElementById("layout");
// (A2) GENERATE SEATS
for (let i=65; i<=68; i++) { for (let j=1; j<=4; j++) {
let seat = document.createElement("div");
seat.innerHTML = String.fromCharCode(i) + j;
seat.className = "seat";
seat.onclick = () => reserve.toggle(seat);
layout.appendChild(seat);
}}
// (A3) FOR DEMO ONLY - RANDOM TAKEN SEATS
let all = document.querySelectorAll("#layout .seat"),
len = all.length - 1, rnd = [];
while (rnd.length != 3) {
let r = Math.floor(Math.random() * len);
if (!rnd.includes(r)) { rnd.push(r); }
}
for (let i of rnd) {
all[i].classList.add("taken");
all[i].onclick = "";
}
},
// (B) CHOOSE THIS SEAT
toggle : seat => seat.classList.toggle("selected"),
// (C) SAVE RESERVATION
save : () => {
// (C1) GET SELECTED SEATS
let selected = document.querySelectorAll("#layout .selected");
// (C2) ERROR!
if (selected.length == 0) { alert("No seats selected."); }
// (C3) SELECTED SEATS
else {
// (C3-1) GET SELECTED SEAT NUMBERS
let seats = [];
for (let s of selected) { seats.push(s.innerHTML); }
// (C3-2) DO SOMETHING WITH IT...
let data = new FormData();
data.append("seats", JSON.stringify(seats));
data.append("name", "JON DOE");
data.append("email", "JON@DOE.COM");
fetch("4-dummy.php", {
method: "POST",
body : data
})
.then(res => res.text())
.then(txt => console.log(txt));
}
}
};
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", reserve.init);
Not going to explain this line-by-line (very boring), but the essentials:
reserve.init()
runs on page load. All it does is generate seats<div class="seat">
into<div id="layout">
and attach “click to select seat”.- Seats that are already taken are “marked” with
<div class="seat taken">
. - To select a seat, we set
<div class="seat selected">
.
- Seats that are already taken are “marked” with
- Yep, to select/unselect a seat, we simply toggle the
selected
CSS class. - To get the selected seats, we simply get all of them with
#layout .selected
. Thereafter, do whatever is required – Collect user information, submit a form, do your own checks, payment, etc…
3) THE CSS
/* (A) SEAT & "COLOR CODE" */
.seat {
text-align: center;
padding: 20px 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
background: #f1f1f1;
}
.taken { background: #df0000; color: #fff; }
.selected { background: #87ff96; }
/* (B) SEATS LAYOUT */
#layout {
max-width: 400px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
grid-gap: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
/* (C) LEGEND */
#legend {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 10px;
grid-template-columns: 50px auto ;
}
#legend .txt {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
/* (D) SAVE */
#save {
font-size: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
padding: 10px 20px;
border: 0;
color: #fff;
background: #00479f;
}
Well, just a whole bunch of CSS cosmetics. The seat layout <div id="layout">
is structured with CSS grid grid-template-columns
. Feel free to change these styles and layouts to your own.
EXTRA BITS & LINKS
That’s all for the tutorial, and here is a small section on some extras and links that may be useful to you.
COMPATIBILITY CHECKS
- Arrow Functions – CanIUse
- CSS Grid – CanIUse
- Fetch – CanIUse
This example will work on all modern “Grade A” browsers.
LINKS & REFERENCES
THE END
Thank you for reading, and we have come to the end. I hope that it has helped you to better understand, and if you want to share anything with this guide, please feel free to comment below. Good luck and happy coding!