form

Definition and Usage

The <form> tag is used to create an HTML form for user input. The HTML <form> tag is used for creating a form for user input. A form can contain textfields, checkboxes, radio-buttons and more. Forms are used to pass user-data to a specified URL.  The <form> tag is used in conjunction with form-associated elements. To create a form, you typically nest form-associated elements inside the opening/closing <form> tags. You can also use the form attribute within those elements to reference the ID of the form to use. When a form is submitted, all fields on the form are being sent. The HTML <form> element represents a document section that contains interactive controls to submit information to a web server. The <form> element can contain one or more of the following form elements:

• <input>
• <textarea>
• <button>
• <select>
• <option>
• <optgroup>
• <fieldset>
• <label>

The <form> tag is written as <form></form> with any number of form-associated elements nested between the start and end tags.   You can add all kinds of HTML tags between the <form> and </form> tags.  The <form> tag usually has an action attribute specified (which specifies the page that will process the form). It can also have other attributes. See below under "Template" for a list of attributes that can be used with the <form> element.

Syntax

<form action="process_form.cfm" method="get"> <label>First Name: <input name="first_name"></label> <label>Last Name: <input name="last_name"></label> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>