Chapter 17
Forms and Inputs
Contents
17.1 The form Tag..................... 173
17.2 Input Fields In General............... 174
17.2.1 name=value...................... 174
17.2.2 The name= Parameter................ 174
17.3 The input Tag.................... 175
17.3.1 The value= Parameter................ 175
17.3.2 Button Inputs.................... 175
17.3.3 Non-Button Inputs.................. 176
17.3.4 HTML5 Input Types................. 179
17.4 The Textarea Tag.................. 179
17.5 The Select and Option Tags............ 180
17.6 Auto Focus and Tab Index............. 180
17.7 Advanced Concepts................. 182
17.7.1 Input Patterns.................... 182
17.7.2 CGI: The Common Gateway Interface....... 182
17.7.3 Special Encoding................... 183
17.7.4 AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.... 183
17.8 For Further Study.................. 184Simple links will take you from one webpage to another. But web pages
can do so much more. Often we want two-way communication, customized
communication, with the computers that send us webpages.
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