Forms provide a method for a Web viewer to send information back to the server of the HTML document. |
<form action="URL"> . . . </form> |
Attributes of this tag are discussed in CGI programming. |
Within one form many pieces of information can be collected and returned to the server.
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Example begin form tag: |
<form method=post action="http://newton.npac.syr.edu/ ???/post-query"> |
The form handler "post-query" is a standard program that accepts all the data and prints it out. |
From Preparing Web Pages - HTML Presentation: Preparing Web Pages with HTML -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken-Foils prepared December 5 1996