HTML Forms

Question 1

What do forms allow us to do?

Answer 1

collect info from users

Question 2

What are form controls?

Answer 2

elements that are used to construct a form

Question 3

What is a form processor?

Answer 3

program used to process forms. browser sends form to processor

Question 4

What is a form data set?

Answer 4

A collection of name value pairs.
“name” is the element attribute
“value” is provided by the user

Question 5

What is a successful control?

Answer 5

A control that has both a name and value at the time of submission

Question 6

What are the two form methods?

Answer 6

Get and Post

Question 7

“Get” form method

Answer 7

used for forms that may be accessed by the user later

Question 8

“Post” form method

Answer 8

used when data should not be accessed later, or for long strings of text.

Question 9

<label></label>

Answer 9

labels new control element

Question 10

<input></input>

Answer 10

allows user to input text

Question 11

name attribute

Answer 11

links label to input

Question 12

type attribute

Answer 12

identifies the type of form control (text input, radio buttons, etc)

Question 13

value attribute

Answer 13

controls the button’s text (exclusive to type=”submit”