Frontend Mentor - officelite website solution

This is a solution to the Officelite website challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Overview

Despite the challenge being labelled as a 'Junior' challenge I found that the layout proved fairly challening to build and change for different devices. Making a background pattern on the wrapper of the site to give the illusion that there is an element that looks like a footer is something that I hadn't done before.

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• See error states when the contact form is submitted if:
  • The Name and/or Email Address fields are empty
  • The Email Address is not formatted correctly
• Bonus: See a live countdown timer that ticks down every second
• Bonus: See a custom-styled select form control in the sign-up form

Screenshot

Links

• Live site

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• SCSS/CSS
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Vanilla JavaScript

What I learned

To create the form dropdown I initially tried wrapping a <span> tag around the words ‘Basic pack’ to change the color and style the drop down but I found out that this would make the HTML invalid as options elements are not supposed to have children. So I ended up changing this to be a ul and li list instead.

Background pattern makes a solid blue color at the bottom of the layout.

.wrap {
  position: relative;
  background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FAFAFA 55%, #25293A 55%);
  z-index: 0;
  overflow: hidden;

  @include mq(medium) {
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FAFAFA 57%, #25293A 57%);
      }

      @include mq(large) {
        background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FAFAFA 65%, #25293A 65%);
      }
}

I added this small bit of code to change the size of the day box when there are three or more digits so the numbers don't flow out of the box.

if (days.toString().length >= 3){
    countdownBoxDays.style.width = "130px";
}