ACOM: Web Design Tutorial Site

• What are forms?
• The <FORM> tag
• Name/value pairs
• Types of input
• Form buttons
• The <LABEL> tag
• Form styles
• Unusual uses of forms
• Form processing/CGI

Summary

If you want information back from your readers you need to place a form on your page. It is easier than you might think to place the familiar buttons and boxes using HTML - processing the form is trickier though, but we will cover the basics here. In any case you can use form elements, possibly combined with JavaScript events, to place all sorts of effects on your page that are interactive in a basic sense.

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