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Forms

Provide a simple means of adding interactivity into web pages and of getting feedback.

A form can be placed anywhere in a HTML page (except inside another form); there can be multiple forms on a single page.

For more information on Forms, Yahoo!’s page on Web forms has links to a number of good pages explaining forms.

Tags Notes Syntax
Form The form tag is binary, in other words the whole form is enclosed in a <form> ... </form> pair. The URL can be a cgi program, HTML file or a mailto URL. (in which case the forms data is emailed to the specified address when the form is submitted). <form action="URL" method="post">
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Web Page by Stephen Peter, S.Peter@unsw.edu.au last updated 21 July 96