网页制作教程 教学课件 赵丰年 1_英文 chap8 forms.pdfVIP

Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Forms Forms 1/12 Objectives • Explain what forms are and how they work. • List the commonly used form controls. • Use common form controls correctly. • Create usable and well-laid-out forms. 2/12 What are forms? • Forms provide an interface allowing users to interact in some way with your site. • In most cases, they are used to gather user data, either for later use or to provide a customized response on the fly. • Forms have a wide range of uses, from functions as simple as search boxes, mailing list signups, guestbooks, and surveys to as complex as online commerce systems. 3/12 How forms work? • Forms collect input via controls, such as buttons, text fields, or scrolling menus. • Controls are placed on the page using special elements in the markup. • These elements are merely an interface for collecting user information and do not actually process the data. • The real work is done by forms-processing applications on the server, such as CGI scripts, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or JSP. 4/12 The basic form element • form … /form • action attribute – The action attribute in the form element provides the URL of the program to be used for processing the form. • method attribute – The method attribute specifies one of two methods, either get or post, for submitting the form information to the server. 5/12