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HTML & CSS Essentials For Dummies
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HTML & CSS Essentials For Dummies

by Paul McFedries
April 2024
Beginner
176 pages
3h 14m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Building Web Forms

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Adding a button or two

Bullet Inserting text boxes and text areas

Bullet Adding checkboxes and radio buttons

Bullet Working with lists and labels

Bullet Putting a picker on your page

HTML offers a mechanism for turning a just-sitting-there web page into an interactive one: a web form. In this chapter, you explore all that web forms have to offer. After mastering the basics, you investigate the amazing features offered by HTML web forms, which can include not only standard knickknacks such as buttons, text boxes, and lists, but also more advanced controls for selecting things like dates and colors. It’s a veritable forms smorgasbord, so get ready to tuck in!

What the Heck Is a Web Form?

A form is essentially the web page equivalent of a dialog box. It’s a page section populated with text boxes, lists, checkboxes, command buttons, and other controls to get information from the user.

A web form is a little data-gathering machine. What kinds of data can it gather? ...

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