Chapter 5. Building Forms

Forms are an essential part of how the Web is made interactive and useful. Forms are interactive because a form demands that you, the user, interact with it to perform some task. That task might be any number of important ones:

  • Entering information into your online banking system so you can manage funds online

  • Submitting your name and information to become a member of an online dating service

  • Making a purchase for an airline ticket and travel services

  • Purchasing other goods and services online

Without forms, we'd have had none of these features available—and, in fact, the Web itself would never have moved along to become as efficient as it is in terms of providing interactive services. Today other technologies ...

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