Forms are very important to a good web site. They are necessary in feedback forms, search engines, login pages, trivia pages, and anything else that would allow the user to interact with you.

All the form items must be placed within the <FORM> and </FORM> tags. The attributes that can be placed inside the <FORM> tag are as follows:

method	Accepts either post (more popular) or get
action	Tells the CGI script where to process the form

The different input types for a form are as follows:

Textarea	A field of text where the user can type comments.
Text	A single line text field that allows the user to input a response
Password	The same as text, but letters and numbers are replaced by *'s
Checkbox	A box the user can click on to put a check mark in their choice
Radio	A round object a user can click in to choose one of many choices
Hidden	A way to send a value to the server for that form, such as the page name
Reset	A button that will erase all the current values inputed on the form
Submit	A button that will send the data to the server specified in ACTION
Select	A drop down box that allows the user to choose one of many choices

Below are examples of what each input type looks like and what the HTML would look like.

This page was created by Scott Andersen, Eric Schroeder, and Drew Viersen.