forms

Question 1

what is a form?

Answer 1

a form is a way to collect information from website users

Question 2

what is the best known form on the web?

Answer 2

the google search box

Question 3

what is a form control?

Answer 3

a form control is a way in which you can specify how information is gathered on the web

Question 4

what is a text input

Answer 4

a text input is a form control that allows the user to enter single lines of text

Question 5

what are text inputs used for?

give an example

Answer 5

text inputs are used for gathering single line amounts of information.

example: username, email address

Question 6

what are password inputs?

Answer 6

password inputs are like text input except the information entered appears as bullets to ensure passwords are kept hidden

Question 7

what is a text area?

Answer 7

a text area is a form control that allows multi line information

Question 8

what are text areas used for?

Answer 8

text areas are used for messages such as comments

Question 9

what is a radio button?

Answer 9

a radio button is a form control that allows a user to select one out of a number of options

Question 10

what is a drop down box?

Answer 10

a drop down box allows a user to select on out of a number of options displayed in a drop down menu

Question 11

what is a submit button?

Answer 11

a submit button is a button used to submit the information entered into the form to another webpage

Question 12

how does a form work?

Answer 12

1) a user fills in a form and presses a button
2) the name of each form control is sent to the server with the values the user entered
3) the server processes the information using programming languages such as python and php
4) the server creates a new page to send back to the users browser browser based ion the information received

Question 13

how can a server differentiate between different form controls and the information sent?

Answer 13

the server can distinguish what information came from what form control by using a name/value pair

Question 14

what is a name/value pair?

Answer 14

a name/value pair is a combination of the name of the form control and the value entered, therefore it is vital that each form control has a name attribiute

Question 15

what is the basic form structure?

Answer 15

1) form element
2) attributes: action and method for the form element
3) some form control elements
4) submit button

Question 16

what is the action attribute?

Answer 16

the action attribute required in every form, its value is the URL for the page on the server that will receive the information of the form when submitted.

the action attribute can be thought of as a finger pointing to the destination of the information.

Question 17

what is the method attribute?

Answer 17

the method attribute specifies which way a form can be sent: get or post

Question 18

what is the post method?

Answer 18

the post method is one way in which a form can be sent, the post method uses HTTP headers to send the values of the form. post- like the post service something is sent in the post, data from the form is sent

Question 19

what is the get method?

Answer 19

with the get method the values from the form are added to the end of the URL specified in the action attribute in order to receive data. get = receiving

Question 20

describe when the post method should be used

Answer 20

the post method should be used when:
the form contains sensitive data - passwords
adds information to, or deleted form a database

Question 21

describe when the get method should be used?

Answer 21

the get method should be used when:

when you are just receiving data from the web server

Question 22

describe the difference between the get and post methods

Answer 22

post- sends data, get- receives data

post- adds or deletes from database get- no interaction with database

Question 23

what is the correct HTML markup for a text input?

Answer 23

(input type = “text” name = “firstname”)

Question 24

describe the input element

Answer 24

the input element is used for most form controls

has an attribute if type- used to change the type of input

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