Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Making Html forms

If you own a website and offering some services than you surely need feedback of your users, to monitor your sales or to give them latest information about your new products. For this you can use HTML forms which are simple to format as per your requirement. The typical example of an HTML forms can be seen on any blog where you are asked to fill in three criteria prior posting a comment. They are namely Name, Email Address, and Message (comment).
Drafting an HTML forms is not a difficult task but it requires a little bit of information/knowledge about the HTML language which is used in the drafting of these forms. This three category form generally uses a “mailto” function, which helps in sending the filled in information to a specific address.
For more clarification let’s give each step of an HTML forms a close look.
The first line is generally the beginning of the HTML tag and which also holds the Email address that is intended to receive the message.
Name- This is the field where the visitors fills in the name to post a message on the site. “” is an HTML tag for a new line. When you use it as “name” in the edit box, you can edit the dimension of this field as well.
Email- Like in the name column you can label and modify the dimensions of the Email column as well. Email column is considered as an important column because; it is that column form where you get the details about your visitors for contacting them.
Message- This box doesn’t come under the edit category because more space is required by it. Though, we can adjust its width and height of this box by altering the rows and columns in it.
Next thing that comes in the HTML forms is the Save Comment button, which you can label by changing the “value” property as per the format of your website.
Once you have properly closed the HTML tag of your HTML email form script, you are done with your first HTML form.
HTML forms are considered as the safest method to collect information from the users over other trivial method of listing of Email addresses. The trivial methods of data collection were more prone to hackers, who can bombard your inbox with unwanted mails; HTML forms are advancement over it.

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