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Forms provide a method for a Web viewer to send information back to the server of the HTML document.
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<form action="URL"> . . . </form>
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Attributes of this tag are discussed in CGI programming.
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Within one form many pieces of information can be collected and returned to the server.
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Text entry fields, one line
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Password fields
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Scrollable text fields
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Checkboxes (off/on toggle)
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Radio buttons
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Pop-up menus
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Push buttons - submit and reset
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Example begin form tag:
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<form method=post action="http://newton.npac.syr.edu/ ???/post-query">
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The form handler "post-query" is a standard program that accepts all the data and prints it out.
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