Basics of Web Design
HTML5 & CSS   Fifth Edition

Chapter 10 – Form Basics

Forms are used for many purposes all over the Web. They are used by search engines to accept keywords and by online stores to process e-commerce shopping carts. Websites use forms to help with a variety of functions—accepting visitor feedback, encouraging visitors to send a news story to a friend or colleague, collecting e-mail addresses for a newsletter, and accepting order information. This chapter introduces a very powerful tool for web developers—forms that accept information from web page visitors. Resource websites and chapter links are listed below.

Free Remotely-hosted Form Processing

• Formbuddy
• FormMail
• MyContactForm
• Wufoo
• Icebrrg
• Master.com
• Response-O-Matic

Privacy & Form Processing

• Better Business Bureau Sample Privacy Policy
• Writing a Privacy Policy

CSS Attribute Selectors

• CSS-Tricks The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors
• W3C CSS Attribute Selectors

Browser Support for HTML5 Form Controls

• Can I Use?
• Standarista

Server-side Script

The server-side script used in the chapter is written in PHP. View the source code.

Server-Side Technologies

• PHP
• Ruby on Rails
• Adobe ColdFusion
• Adobe Flex
• Microsoft .NET Framework
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Java

Free Server-Scripts

• Matt’s Script Archive
• Hot Scripts

Chapter Updates

• Page 335 Table 10.2
  Note that the table entry for the value "file" should be deleted. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file for details about a form control for file upload.
  
  
• Page 353
  In the first code sample on the page, please ignore the stray <h2> tag.

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