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Notes Unit 8: ASP Web Forms

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

8.1 Using Form Fields
8.2 Introduction to CGI Forms and CGI
8.3 Understanding Client-Server Scripting

8.3.1 How ASP differs from Client-Side Scripting Technologies?
8.4 Building and Processing Web Forms
8.5 Summary
8.6 Keywords
8.7 Review Questions

8.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Scan the introduction to CGI

 Describe Client-Server side scripting
 Demonstrate building and processing web forms

Introduction

A form has two duties:
1. To collect information from the user and to send that information to a separate Web page
for processing.
2. Through the use of form, an ASP page can acquire the user’s input, and make programmatic
decisions based on that input.
Creating form is straightforward and simple. It requires as little as two lines of HTML.
It is created using the <FORM> Tag
1: <FORM METHOD= POST ACTION= “somepage.asp”>
2: </FORM>

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Caution The above form is useless and serves no function. It has no text boxes for users to
enter information into. It has no list boxes, radio buttons or check boxes either.
On a website, this form would be useless; however it does demonstrate how a <FORM> tag is
used to collect information from the user.

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