HTML QUESTION!! html form

chongjeefatt

can someone teach me how to use html form to get the visitor feedback!!
thankq???

GHoosdum

Well, a form is just made up of different HTML tags. However, in order for it to actually work, you need some kind of active content-capable language behind it. You start out with a FORM tag, like this (without the spaces between the word and the < and > symbols:

< form action="some form action here" >

inside the form tag, you have text as labels, and form elements, like the text box:

< input type="text" name="Text1" SIZE="20" >

Then you need a text area to take in all the feedback, which is specific in size:

< textarea name="Feedback" cols="60" rows="15">

Then you need a submit button to perform the form's action, specified above in the form tag.

< input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" Value="Submit" >

Then you need a closing form tag:

< /form >

You can use PHP or ASP (and some other languages) depending upon the server, along with these form tags, to create a form that you can use for feedback to be either posted to a database or e-mailed to you.

chongjeefatt

if i m using geocities webspace and i want to email the submited data to me ! then how to do ya??

Linc

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/cgi/processingforms.html

I also highly recommend the Google Search for additional tutorials.

HeartSmasherElite

Well if you would really like to get it going use ASP or PHP
this well enable instant feedback to your visitors and to you at the same time
Its called server side language

I will be using it on a website that I will create

get a book or search yahoo for interactivity, ASP tutorials.

That should answer your question

primesuspect

He's using Geocities, if you have read the thread. He cannot use ASP or PHP.

HeartSmasherElite

Really, so why is it that when I've used geocities(4.5 years now) that ASP and PHP work perfectly fine.

Maybe he just isn't doing it right.

Thrax

I smell bull****...

Straight from Geocities FAQ:

We support Microsoft FrontPage server extensions, but this doesn't include support for Active Server Pages or ASP. If you do anything within Microsoft FrontPage that involves ASP, it won't work when you publish it to your web site. Be careful not to add anything to your site that will require an .asp file extension to be added to any of the files necessary for your site.

Now how about PHP?

It's only supported on the plus package and above, which hasn't been offered for more than two years now. Prior to that, Geocities didn't have MySQL or CGI because I remember struggling for months to get both working.

primesuspect

okay, thrax beat me to it. But yeah, there you go.

HeartSmasherElite

weird mine worked perfectly I don't know why it was free

HeartSmasherElite

ftp and all the really nice features did not work thought strange

HeartSmasherElite

but I don't really care its not that big of a deal just use an add on that one of the sites offer or find one on yahoo (forms email forums) you can use javascript to accomplish this

Shorty

HeartSmasherElite wrote:

but I don't really care its not that big of a deal just use an add on that one of the sites offer or find one on yahoo (forms email forums) you can use javascript to accomplish this

Real safe there...

HeartSmasherElite

I was talkin about the hater
You could use javascrript and html to build a form

HeartSmasherElite

and if you post back real quick I'll make one for you to use.
haha how about that for freebies
Just tell me what questions you want on there mmk

Shorty

Javascript should only be used for simple validation

HeartSmasherElite

I know how to build a form smarty its easy
I would just like to know what they want.
So I can help them out and tell them how to use form calidation if they would like to learn.
and how to email it.