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Unit 10: Working of Web Designing

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
10. A collection of frames in the browser window is known as a ……………………
11. The …………………… element indicates what goes in each frame of the frameset.

12. The frame where the new document is supposed to appear is called the ……………………
10.5 Forms

HTML forms are useful when we need to collect some data from the site visitor.

Example: Registration information: name, email address, credit card, etc.
Form contain many elements like text fields, text area fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons,
checkboxes, etc. which are used to take information from the user. Let us now discuss them in
detail.

Example: A
<form action=”back-end script” method=”posting method”>
form elements like input, textarea, etc.

</form>
10.5.1 Text Controls

To take text as the input from user HTML provides us with 3 kinds of text controls: text fields,
password fields and text areas.

Text Fields

There are actually three types of text input used on forms:
z Single-line text input controls.

z Password input controls
z Multi-line text input controls
We will now elaborate on all of them.

Single-line Text Input Controls

They are created using an <input> element whose type attribute has a value of text.

Example: <form action=”/cgi-bin/hello_get.cgi” method=”get”> First name: <input
type=”text” name=”first_name” /> <br> Last name: <input type=”text” name=”last_name” />
<input type=”submit” value=”submit” /> </form>

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