Lesson 10:Designing Forms

Up to this point, you’ve learned almost everything you need to know to create functional, attractive, and somewhat interactive web pages. If you think about it, however, the pages you’ve created thus far have a one-way information flow. Your HTML documents, images, sounds, and video have been traveling to web browsers with no return ticket.

Today’s lesson is about creating HTML forms to collect information from people visiting your website. Forms enable you to gather just about any kind of information for immediate processing by a server-side script or for later analysis using other applications. If you’ve spent much time browsing the Web, you’ve undoubtedly run across forms of various flavors. Many forms exist: ...

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