HTML and XHTML Step by Step

Chapter 14 Creating User Forms

To create a user input form

Creating a Basic Form

<form method="post">
</form>

To send form results to an e-mail address

Creating a Basic Form

<form method="post" action=mailto:emailaddress enctype="text/plain">

where emailaddress is the address to which to send the data.

To send form results to a CGI script

Creating a Basic Form

<form method="post" action="url">

where url is the path to the script.

To create a text box field in a form

Creating a Basic Form

<input type="text" name="fieldname" size="n" maxlength="n" />

where fieldname is a unique name you assign, and n is a number of characters.

To create a multiline text area

Creating a Basic Form

<textarea name="fieldname" rows="n1" columns="n2">Default text</textarea>

where fieldname ...