Spring Into HTML and CSS

Customizing and Advancing Your Forms

You've learned everything in this chapter you need to know to create effective, useful, and accessible forms. Again, although they're not pretty just yet, you'll be able to spruce them up when you learn how using CSS.

For now, you'll want to take two important steps. The first is to build a complete form from start to finish, using as many text fields, text areas, check boxes, radio buttons, and menu lists as your needs require.

Then, of course, is the issue of how your form will be processed. Forms processing can be straightforward or fairly complex, depending upon your needs. Forms processing is also done on a number of server types, so technologies will vary—and what those technologies can do (and ...