Hour 18. Gathering Information with HTML FormsUp to this point, pretty much everything in this book has focused on getting information out to others. (Email links, introduced in Hour 6, "Creating Text Links," are a notable exception.) But HTML is a two-way street; you can use your web pages to gather information from the people who read them as well. Web forms allow you to receive feedback, orders, or other information from the people who visit and read your web pages. If you've ever used a web search engine such as Google, Lycos, or Yahoo!, you're familiar with HTML forms. Product order forms are also an extremely popular use of forms. This lesson shows you how to create your own forms and the basics of how to handle form submissions. An HTML form is part of a web page that includes areas where readers can enter information to be sent back to you, the publisher of the page. |