Forms in HTML: Introduction to forms |

 Forms in HTML: Introduction to forms |

-HTML Page or web page originally were started to display static text.

- Later one web pages were able to show text or data in other forms

  like images, audio, etc.

- Also today, the static WWW is converted to dynamic which means today HTML pages are created in dynamic form which can be continuously update even after loaded in browser.

- Also todays HTML pages can collect user events and process accordingly like if user click on GO or SUBMIT button what action to be taken, etc.

- HTML page not only can perform the job of giving output to user but also can be used to get input from user in different ways.

-FORM is one such standard technique to collect data from user to be stored in systematic way. E.g. Form for Online Payment of College Fees / Exam Fees, etc (SBI Collect) Registration Form, Application, Feedback form, etc.

- HTML Forms are required when you want to collect some data from the site visitor / User.

-For example during user registration you would like to collect information such as name, email address, credit card, etc.

- A form will take input from the site visitor and then will post it to a back-end application such as CGI, ASP Script or PHP script etc.

-The back-end application will perform required processing on the passed data based on defined business logic inside the application.

-There are various form elements available like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.

-   To create HTML Form, HTML supports

<Form>…</Form> paired or container tag which can be used as:

<Form>

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</Form>