form

Form

<form> ... </form>

Attributes

attribute default description
id none specifies the unique ID
class none specifies the style sheet class
style none specifies the style sheet
action none specifies the URL to send the data to
method get specifies the method for sending data to the server (get or post)
enctype none specifies the MIME type
target none specifies the target window

Support

HTML 2, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE3 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 3 or later][Netscape 2 or later]

Explanation

The form tag specifies an input form. The submit method can specify get or post. In the case of specifying get, the data, which is separated by a question mark(?) after the URL, will be submitted.

Related Tags

button, input, textarea

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<form method="get" action="../bbs.cgi">
<input type="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>