To assist his readers with all their text field, checkbox, radio button questions, Joe Burns wrote an article all about the creation of forms through HTML. "The first thing you must tell the computer is that you are starting a form, and what you want done with the form data. The command to alert the computer is:
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:your address">
Notice the command did three things:
It told the computer a FORM was starting.
It stated the METHOD of dealing with the form is to POST it.
And the data should be posted to
XHTML is not very different from the HTML 4.01 standard. So, bringing your code up to the 4.01 standard is a good start. Our complete HTML 4.01 reference can help you with that.
In addition, you should start NOW to write your HTML code in lowercase letters, and NEVER skip ending tags (like </p>).
Happy coding!
The Most Important Differences:
XHTML elements must be properly nested
XHTML elements must always be closed
XHTML elements must be in lowercase
XHTML documents must have one root element
XHTML Elements Must Be Properly
Forms
Users can provide feedback or use HTML to access databases through forms. Forms can be constructed from five level 2 HTML tags:
FORM
INPUT
OPTION
SELECT
TEXTAREA
They provide a user with the ability to enter information which can then be processed on the server as survey information, search information for a database, information request, etc.
Forms by themselves only allow data entry. They require software commonly referred to as gateways, which receive the data, process it, and return a response to the
Accessing data on the Internet using current technology is slow. Pages are slow to render because they are being built by server processes. The processes building these pages are slowing down your server because your server is generating HTML rather than transmitting files. Since, on the client, the data in a page is indistinguishable from the page that contains it, additional requests are made to the server to manipulate the data.
Data binding is a new feature of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE 4.0) that enables authors to create Web pages that
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