Tuesday, January 5, 2010

How to Understand the Parts of a Website Forms

Forms are a way for your viewers to send you the formation and this information could be a request for a catalog or more information. Actually the forms collect information in fields and then send the information to some kind of programming to process the information, and usually a database to store the information.

It’s up to you that you can design a form with whatever program and you can use to build your web pages, whether it's Notepad, Joomla, Dreamweaver or something else. However, the website design firm needs the programming that collects the information and the database that stores the information requires new sets of skills.

The Form Tag

Some tags for forms are listed below:
• The tag which adds a form to a web page is <>.
• The form tag can have various properties: action, method, name, id etc, and others.
• The action property decides what will happen when someone clicks the main button on a form.
• The method property decides how the information from the form will be sent. There are two options for method: POST and GET.
• Name and id aren't the same thing, but actually they are similar.
• You can also add the inline CSS style property to your form, although it would be best to use an external style sheet for your styles.

Types of Form "Widgets"


As the forms have fields so it could collect the data for each field with textboxes, but textboxes aren't as secure as some other field widgets, because viewers can enter all kinds of garbage data - even attack data - in your form. The responsibilities of the designing totally come under the department of the web development services. The fewer textboxes you use in your form but more secure your form is. Here is a list of some form field widgets:

• TEXTBOXES
• TEXT
• RADIO BUTTONS
• CHECKBOXES
• Dropdown lists
• Hidden fields
• File upload
• Buttons



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