Chapter 2
Building and Processing Web Forms
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding web form basics
Coding text boxes, check boxes, and radio buttons
Programming lists, labels, and buttons
Monitoring and triggering form events
Submitting the form data
From humble beginnings, forms in HTML5 are now tremendously flexible and powerful, providing natively much of the functionality that we as developers have been adding in with JavaScript over the years.
— PETER GASSTON
A dynamic web page is one that interacts with the user and responds in some way to that interaction. However, when I use the word interaction here, I don’t mean (or I don’t just mean) users scrolling through your content and clicking a link here and there. A dynamic web page solicits feedback from the user and then responds to that feedback in an appropriate way (whatever appropriate might mean in that context). Sure, you can pester your page visitors for info by tossing them a confirm or prompt box or two, but these are mere toys ...
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