InformIT: Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

Workshop

Quiz

What do you need to get from the people who administer your Web server computer before you can put a form on the Internet?

Write the HTML to create a "guestbook" form that asks someone for his or her name, sex, age, and email address. Assume that you have a form-processing script set up at /cgi/generic and that you need to include the following hidden input element to tell the script where to send the form results:
```
        <input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="you@yoursite.com" />
```

If you had created an image named sign-in.gif, how would you use it as the Submit button for the guestbook in question 2?

Answers

The Internet address of a script or program that is set up specifically to process form data.

<html><head><title>My Guestbook</title></head>
<body>
<h1>My Guestbook: Please Sign In</h1>
<form method="post" action="/cgi/generic">
<input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="you@yoursite.com" />
Your name: <input type="text" name="name" size="20" /><p>
Your sex:
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male" /> male
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female" /> female<p>
Your age: <input type="text" name="age" size="4" /><p>
Your e-mail address:
<input type="text" name="email" size="30" /><p>
<input type="submit" value="sign in" />
<input type="reset" value="erase" />
</form>
</body></html>

Replace

<input type="submit" value="Sign In" />

with

<input type="image" src="sign-in.gif" />

Exercise

Create a form using all of the different types of input elements and selection lists to make sure you understand how each of them works.

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