Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

The <form> Tag

The <form> tag is used to place a form on a Web page and to indicate that the fields within it are all part of the same form.

Form fields can’t be placed on a page at all unless they’re enclosed within a <form> tag.

To create a form, the following syntax is used:

<form> 
<!--  insert form fields here --> 
</form> 

There are a number of attributes associated with the <form> tag that control the behavior of the form. Each of the attributes has a default value, so they can all be left out, as I did in the previous example. I’ll go through the attributes associated with the <form> tag one by one.

In this chapter, you’ll see that I use ...