18.12. Summary
HTML forms generally consist of two main parts: a FORM element that designates the URL that processes the data and INPUT elements that gather the data. The INPUT elements have a NAME specified in HTML and a value either specified in HTML or supplied by the end user. The name/value pairs are sent to the server either attached to the end of the main URL (with GET requests) or on a separate line (with POST requests).
Gathering data is all well and good. But processing data is the really interesting part. That's the subject of the next two chapters.
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