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| First determine why you need a form.
The most common reason for using a form is to make it easy for your viewers to communite with you. |
TIP: Always remember to close your forms by using a </FORM> |
| The first line of your form should read as the following: ---------------------->
replace the "your email address" with your own email address. This tells the computer to send the information to you email address when the user clicks on the submit button. |
<FORM ACTION="mailto:your email address" METHOD=POST> |
| Entering Data | Sample |
| RADIO - Provides a selection of alternatives | <INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME=One VALUE=1> 1 |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change "NAME=One" to whatever you wish to name that question. In the example here I changed it to NAME=Color. For each RADIO White, I changed the VALUE=1 to the color name. |
Choose a Color
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| TEXT- Produces a single line text field | EMAIL:
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=10 NAME="email"> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change the NAME="email" To whatever you wish to name your question to. |
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| TEXT AREA - Allows the user to enter more than one line of information. | Other:<TEXTAREA NAME="Other" rows=3 cols=10></TEXTAREA> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change the NAME="other" To whatever you wish to name your question to. You can change the rows=3 cols=10 to greater or smaller numbers making your TEXT AREA box bigger or smaller. |
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| Pull Down Manu - A pull down menu allows a user to select several options | Do you think my web page is great?
<SELECT NAME="Think"> <OPTION selected>Yes <OPTION> No <OPTION> No Comment </SELECT> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change the NAME="Thank" to whatever you wish to name your question. You can change Yes, No and No Comment to possible answers to your question. |
Do you think my web page is great?
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| Sample Explanations:
<SELECT NAME="Think"> Changed to <SELECT NAME="Think" SIZE=3> |
Do you think my web page is great?
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| Images - You can also use an image as a selection button. | <INPUT TYPE=IMAGE NAME="Answer" VALUE="Yes" SRC="yes.gif"> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change NAME="Answer" to the name of your question. VALUE="Yes" to the answer to the question. SRC= is the name of the impage you are using. |
| Closing your Form | Samples |
| Submit - Button to allow user to send information to you. | <INPUT type="submit" value="Send Information Now!"> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change value="Send Information Now!" to whatever you wish the button to read. |
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| Clearing your form
You may find it necessary if you have the user inputing a lot of information to put A RESET button on your form. |
<INPUT type="reset" value="Reset"> |
| Sample Explanations:
You can change value="Reset" to anyname you wish. |
| Always close a form by adding a ----> | </FORM> |
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