HTML, CSS, and JavaScript® Mobile Development For Dummies®

Chapter 9

Designing Mobile Forms

In This Chapter

Understanding basic form construction

Learning the different form elements

Formatting forms with CSS

Creating a contact form

Using server-side form processing

Back at the start of the Information Age, as the personal computer was just being introduced as a household appliance, prognosticators had all kinds of predictions of how these devices — and the Internet — would change our lives. One prediction was that by now we'd all be taking advantage of the paperless office. The forests would finally get a break when we all stopped using so much paper. As it turned out, the talking heads missed the mark completely.

The advent of the PC has had an opposite effect. The world uses more paper than ever — mostly contributable to proliferation of computers and personal printers. What we did see, though, was a shift in the way we use and process forms. Although we use forms more than ever, most of them are electronic. We submit them online, rather ...