December 2005
Beginner
704 pages
17h 10m
English
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Chapter 14. XHTML Forms: Getting Interactive
So far all your Web communication has been one way: from your page to your visitors. Golly, wouldn’t it be nice if your visitors could talk back? That’s where XHTML forms come in: once you enable your pages with forms (along with a little help from a Web server), your pages are going to be able to gather customer feedback, take an online order, get the next move in an online game, or collect the votes in a “hot or not” contest. In this chapter you’re going to meet a whole team of XHTML elements that work together to create Web forms. You’ll also learn a bit about what goes on behind the scenes in the server to support forms, and we’ll even talk about keeping those forms stylish (a controversial topic; read on and see why).
How forms work
If you use the Web at all, then you know what a form is. But you might not have really thought about what they have to do with XHTML. A form is basically a Web page with input fields that allows you to enter information. When the form is submitted, that information is packaged up and sent off to a Web server to be processed by a Web application. When the processing is done, what do you get? Another Web page, of course, as a response. Let’s take a closer look at how this works:
How forms work in the browser
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