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Chapter 13: Forms

Introduction

In order to group input elements and submit data, HTML uses a form element to encapsulate input
and submission elements. These forms handle sending the data in the specified method to a page
handled by a server or handler. This topic explains and demonstrates the usage of HTML forms in
collecting and submitting input data.

Syntax

• <form method="post|get" action="somePage.php" target="_blank|_self|_parent|_top|framename">

Parameters

Attribute Description

Specifies the character encodings that are to be used for the form
accept-charset
submission.

action Specifies where to send the form-data when a form is submitted.

autocomplete Specifies whether a form should have autocomplete on or off.

Specifies how the form-data should be encoded when submitting it to
enctype
the server (only for method="post").

Specifies the HTTP method to use when sending form-data (POST or
method
GET).

name Specifies the name of a form.

novalidate Specifies that the form should not be validated when submitted.

Specifies where to display the response that is received after
target
submitting the form.

Remarks

The <form> element represents a section that contains form-associated elements (e.g. <button>
<fieldset> <input> <label> <output> <select> <textarea>) that submits information to a server. Both
starting (<form>) and ending (</form>) tags are required.

Examples

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