Summary

In this hour, you learned how multipage Web forms are assembled. While doing so, you learned about a few problems that need to be addressed in writing programs—most seriously, making programs remember from page to page what happened. You also learned how hidden fields are used to remember information on Web pages that can't be remembered by the server, and then you constructed a bare-bones survey form using hidden fields.

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