Lesson 11. 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. This 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

This lesson covers the following topics, which enable you to create any type of form possible with HTML:

• Discovering how HTML forms interact with server-side scripts to provide interactivity

• Creating simple forms to get the hang ...

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