17. Forms
Up to now, all the (X)HTML you have learned has helped you communicate your ideas with your visitors. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create forms which enable your visitors to communicate with you.
There are two basic parts of a form: the collection of fields, labels, and buttons that the visitor sees on a page and hopefully fills out, and the processing script that takes that information and converts it into a format that you can read or tally.
Constructing a form’s fields and buttons (pages 254–276) is straightforward and similar to creating any other part of the Web page. You can create text boxes, special password boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down menus, larger text areas, and even clickable images. You will give ...
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