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3 Type action=”?”,
replacing? with the path to
the file that will process your
form.
Note: See Chapter 12 for more
information on writing scripts to
process forms.
1 In your editor, open a new or
existing HTML document into
which you want to add a
form.
2 Within the body, type
<form.Create a Form
A
form in HTML consists of a group of form controls wrapped in a <form> tag. The tag takes
two common attributes: action and method. The value of action is a URL to a page that
contains the code necessary to process the form’s data. The method attribute accepts one of two
values. Setting the value to get instructs the browser to send the form’s data by appending it to
the action’s URL, whereas the value post has the browser send the data as part of the background
information it normally sends to the server.