Website Forms and Data Submission
An HTML form is a section of a document containing normal content, markup, special elements called controls (checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, etc.), and labels on those controls. Users interact with forms through named controls. Users generally 'complete' a form by entering text, selecting menu items, etc. then clicking a 'submit' button to process the requested data by sending it to a pre-defined email address, or recording it to a database or text file, usually located on the website's web server.
Here is an example of a very basic form:
Forms have become common place on the Internet and have become sophisticated in how they validate input. A website owner can require certain fields, an email address for example, while not requiring other fields, like a postal address. Form fields can also be validated on the web page to ensure the data being entered is useable data, such as checking to see if the email address has all the necessary components; user @domain.ext .
Forms data submission usually requires server side web services such as PHP, to process the data.
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