HTML Forms

• Html: Create forms with different fields to accept user data.
• CSS: It enhances the style and presentation.
• JavaScript: It provide validations for form inputs.
• Server side languages: Like PHP. JAVA, .NET etc. different languages are used to process the data.

• action: It allows user data to be processed by running backend script.
• method: It is used to upload data by 2 methods GET & POST.
• target: It specify the target window where result is to be displayed.
• enctype: It specifies the browser on how to encodes the data before it sends to the server.

HTML Form Controls

• Input Controls: When user input the text then the text can be single line or multiple line thus we apply control.

1. Single Line I/P Control: It is used when user required to enter only single line text as input such as in user name, search box etc. Syntax: <input>? tag.
2. Multi Line I/P Control: When user details require multi-line or more than single line input. We use <textarea> tag.

<form>  
         First name: <input type = "text" name = "first_name" /><br>  
         Last name: <input type = "text" name = "last_name" /><br>  
<textarearowstextarearows = "5" cols = "50" name = "Description">  
            Enter description here...  
</textarea>  
</form>

• Checkbox Control: It is used when user has to select more than one option i.e. multiple options.

• Radio Button Control: It is used when out of many option we have to select one options. It is a one to many relations. Example: In case of Gender selection etc.

<body>  
<form>  
<input type = "radio" name = "male" value = "male"> Male  
<input type = "radio" name = "female" value = "female"> Female  
</form>  
</body>

• Select Box Control: It is also known as drop down box where it provides a list and can select any single value from the list. Example: Selection of state, city etc.

<form>  
<select name = "dropdown">  
<option value = "State" selected>State</option>  
<option value = "Assam">Assam</option>  
<option value = "Bihar">Bihar</option>  
</select>  
</form>

• Button Controls: Button controls are the integrated attribute of  tag with which we can create clickable buttons. Example: Submit button, Reset Button etc.

• File Upload Box: It allows user to upload file to some websites. It is also embedded with