Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

11. Using Forms and Fields

In This Chapter

Adding a Form to a Page 309

Adding Text Fields 311

Adding a Text Area 314

Adding Check Boxes 315

Adding a Fieldset 316

Adding a Radio Button Group 317

Adding a List/Menu 319

Adding a Button 323

Putting It All Together 326

A lot of Web sites exist just to provide information and entertainment to site visitors. But if you want your site to get information back from your visitors, you’ll need some way to let them interact with you and your site. To do that, you’ll need to add a form.

A form contains fields, and those fields can be anything from a simple check box to a group of radio buttons, or a single or multi-line text entry area. And of course, you’ll want some sort of “OK” or “Submit” button so ...