Professional Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007

12.2. Traditional Web Forms

SharePoint Designer supports the creation of traditional HTML-based forms, which can be used both within and outside of SharePoint sites. When on a non-SharePoint server that supports ASP.NET, you can also create standard ASP.NET (ASPX) applications, which have full database interactivity.

12.2.1. HTML Forms and Legacy FrontPage Webbots

Traditional HTML forms are simple client-side constructs. While you can use JavaScript for validation prior to submission, generally speaking, the forms themselves are not active components. Information appropriate to the defined field types is collected from the user and passed on to the server for processing.

You can always create static HTML pages, no matter what kind of site you are working on.

12.2.1.1. Creating an HTML Form

To create an HTML form, do the following:

1. Select File New HTML to open a new blank HTML page.

2. From the Form Controls section of the Toolbox, drag a form control onto the page.

3. Drag an Input (Text) control into the form area.

   HTML form controls do not need to be placed within a form, although unscripted processing is only possible if they are.

   When you select a form element from the Toolbox and place it on a page outside of an existing form, by default, SharePoint Designer automatically creates ...