Dreamweaver CS3 Bible

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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"

Every form needs some type of connection to a
Web server, whether it is through one of the Dreamweaver server models or a common gateway interface
(CGI) script.
Forms, like HTML tables, are self-contained units within a Web page. All the elements of a form are contained
within the form tag pair . You cannot nest forms as you do tables, although
there??™s nothing to stop you from having multiple forms on a page.
The most commonly used attributes of the

tag include the following:
n method??”Tells the browser and the Web server how to present the form contents to the application
that will process the form. The two possible method values are get and post. The get
method passes the attached information with a URL; this method places limitations on the amount
and format of data that can be passed to the application. The post method enables the application
program to receive the information as standard input and imposes no limits on the passed data.
n action??”Determines what should be done with the form content. Most commonly, action is
set to a URL for running a specific Web application or for sending e-mail.
Typical HTML for a tag looks something like the following:

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Joseph W. Lowery

"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"