August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
14h 14m
English
Topics in This Chapter
Data submission from forms
Text controls
Push buttons
Check boxes and radio buttons
Combo boxes and list boxes
File upload controls
Server-side image maps
Hidden fields
Groups of controls
Tab ordering
A Web server for debugging forms
HTML forms provide a simple and reliable user interface to collect data from the user and transmit the data to a servlet or other server-side program for processing. In this chapter we present the standard form controls defined by the HTML 4.0 specification. However, before covering each control, we first explain how the form data is transmitted to the server when a GET or POST request is made.
We also present a mini Web server that is useful for understanding ...
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