Chapter 16. Forms

<feature><title>What you can do with forms:</title>
What you can do with forms:

  • get feedback

  • have a guestbook

  • take a survey

  • see who’s visiting you

  • sell stuff

  • and much more!

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Up to now, all the (X)HTML you have learned has helped you communicate your ideas with your visitors. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create forms which enable your visitors to communicate with you.

There are two basic parts of a form: the structure or shell, that consists of fields, labels, and buttons that the visitor sees on a page and hopefully fills out, and the processing script that takes that information and converts it into a format that you can read or tally.

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