Adding
Final Touches to Web Page
After
creating your webpages, you might want to enable visitors to your webpages
to send personal information to you or to place their order with you through
the Internet. At this stage, you need to learn how to create a form in
your webpage.
<FORM>
Form
A
FORM tag is used in an HTML document just like any other tag. It has a
start tag FORM> and an end tag /FORM>.
A FORM
tag is structured like this:
<FORM
METHOD="POST" ACTION="URL">
<I>Form Elements</I>
</FORM>
METHOD="
"
To
tell the browser what the form will do; either send information back to
the server or try to get information from the server. (Values are POST
and GET)
POST
This is used if the
user doesn't need to send any information back. (Feedback form, Order
form, Survey form)
GET
The user expects to
receive some information. (Search Machine, Online Applications such as
Calculator, Games, etc.)
ACTION="URL
"
This tells the browser where
the URL that contain the query program or server to which the contents
of the form that return will be sent to. (Normally, you need to create
a CGI program in order to interpret the data that obtained from the webpages)
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