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StructureThe <HEAD> section
...Title
...Setting the Base address
...Queries : ISINDEX
...META tags
...<LINK>s
The <BODY> tag
...Document Colours
...Background
Text
HeadingsFonts
Preformatted text
Special Characters
Character Formatting
...Blink
...Bold
...Italics
...Underline
...Strikethrough
...Superscript
...Subscript
Paragraph formatting
...Blockquote
...Line Breaks
...New Paragraph
...Stop Line Breaks
...Word Break
...Centre text
Miscellaneous
...Addresses
...Use Bigger/Smaller fonts
...Citations
...Code
...Keyboard input
...Sample
...Teletype
...Variables
...XMP
Organisation tools
CommentsHorizontal lines
Links
...<LINK>s
...within pages
...Image maps
Frames
...Naming and Targeting
Tables
...example tag
...Rows
...Cells
...Captions
Lists
...Definition lists
...Directory Lists
...Menu Lists
...Ordered Lists
...Unordered Lists
Embedding special files
Forms
Images
Sounds
Special Effects - Javascript
Events...onAbort
...onBlur
...onChange
...onClick
...onError
...onFocus
...onLoad
...onMouseOver
...onMouseOut
...onReset
...onScroll
...onSelect
...onSubmit
...onUnload
Basic Commands
...Changing the status bar
...Opening a new window
...changing page being viewed
Search Engines
Forms
These allow people to send you feedback about your site. They are bounded by the following tags:<form action="???" method="???"> </form>ACTION is the address to which the contents of the form is sent, and is usually a CGI script or email address. Xoom and Geocities users cannot use custom CGI scripts for security concerns. Members can either use
action="mailto:[your email address]", or action="?????" to email the form in a more readable format. The latter is preferable, since visitors may not like having to send their email address with the form.METHOD is one of POST or GET, in Xoom you will only need POST.
There is a further attribute,
enctype, which specifies the format in which to send the form data. The default is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, but you can usually just ignore this attribute. text/plain will make the output easier to read.
Forms can contain any of the HTML elements, but the following special items determine the data that a form sends. All form items contain "name" and "value" attributes, since form data is submitted as Name: Value pairs... The best thing to do is experiment an see what happens!
Input
The code is as follows, where NAME is the name of the value's field, used when the form data is posted. The CHECKED attribute specifies whether of not an object (such as radio or check boxes) is initially selected. < INPUT type="Text" name="???" value="Initial Value"
size="number of characters" maxlength="maximum size of text" > <
input type="CheckBox" name="???" value="Value sent if selected" checked > <
input type="Radio" name="use the one name for a button group"
value="value sent if button selected" checked
> <input type="Password" name="???" value="Initial value" size="???" maxlength="???"
> <
input type="Reset" name="???" value="Button Label"
> <
input type="Submit" name="???" value="Button Label"
>Other Buttons
<button type=reset|submit|button name="???" value="Button Label"
>When used with the type=button, the button has little effect unless a javascript function is assigned to it - see the special effects section for more information.
Selection boxes
The above was created with the following code:
<select name="Selection Name" size="3" multiple >
<option value="1">Option 1
<option value="2" selected>Option 2
<option value="3">Option 3
<option value="4">Option 4
<option value="5">Option 5
</select>
The MULTIPLE attribute allows more than one option to be selected. SIZE is the amount of visible items.
<textarea name="???" cols="??" rows="??" wrap="virtual|physical|off" > initial text </textarea>
WRAP specifies whether text is seen and sent as typed (off), wrapped on-screen but sent as typed (virtual), or wrapped on screen and sent as seen.
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