Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

The action Attribute

The action attribute in the form element provides the URL of the program to be used for processing the form. In the example in Figure 15-1, the form information is going to a Perl script called guestbook.pl, which resides in the cgi-bin directory of the current server (by convention, CGI programs are usually kept in a directory called cgi-bin).

Figure 15-1. A simple form