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Forms in HTML
In HTML version 2, the idea of "forms" (and
various related data structures) were introduced. These provided
the basis technology for the recent explosion in
"electronic storefronts" on the Web as well as
several other innovations.
A form in HTML is an area of a Web page which is used to gather
input from a human user. The information which is gathered can then
be returned to the page's owner using a SUBMIT
action.
The form is, as expected, delimited by a
<FORM> and
</FORM> markup pair.
The <FORM> markup has two important
attributes:
ACTION- specifies the action URL of this form. Typically this is the
URL of an executable program, see the later discussion of CGI.
METHOD- specifies the way in which the
ACTION URL
is accessed. There are two methods, GET and
POST.
Example:
<FORM
ACTION="http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/cgi-bin/myprog" METHOD="GET">
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