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HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/form
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Use
This lets the user create a form. This element lets the web page owner gather information from the users.
For a brief introduction, see the HyperText Markup Language/Forms section of this book.
Example
<form method="post" action="SignIn.php">
<input type="text" name="UserName" size="6">
<input type="password" name="Password" size="6">
</form>
Required attributes
method
Specifies how information from a form transfers to a Web Server.
action
Identifies the Web Page or CGI that the information from the form is to be sent.
Optional attributes
class
Associated CSS classes.
id
A string that will be unique throughout the page.
lang
The ISO language code.
onreset
A declared script that is run before a form's data is erased.
onSubmit
A declared script that is run before a form is submitted.
style
Inline CSS commands.
title
Advisory title.
Standard attributes
method
action
More info
A link to a page with more info, then the name of the site the info came from (i.e. W3Schools).
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