Building Forms

Forms are an essential part of how the Web is made interactive and useful. Forms are interactive because a form demands that you, the user, interact with it to perform some task.

Building Forms - How the Web is made interactive and useful

rms are an essential part of how the Web is made interactive and useful. Forms are interactive because a form demands that you, the user, interact with it to perform some task. That task might be any number of important ones: * Entering information into your online banking system so you can manage funds online * Submitting your name and information to become a member of an online dating service * Making a purchase for an airline ticket and travel servi

Designing User-Friendly Forms - Go the extra mile with forms that make sense

omputers were designed to take burden off of the human mind, and we expect them to work properly. Being the user-conscious designers that we are, our job is to make it make it simple for people to interact with our website. This tutorial describes key principles for effective design of user-friendly data entry forms. Most of these are very simple, but it is often the simple things that we overlook. No specific programming language is used for any of the suggestions below, so you should be abl

In Depth Contact Form Part 1 - The Form Itself

The following is the first of a short series of tutorials concentrating on building and handling a contact form on your website. This, the first part, will concentrate on the HTML of the form. The second will cover the PHP handling and a third anf final tutorial will consider possible enhancements, enhancing security and other ways to expand the basic form. First off then, we'll be creating the form itself. I will only cover the form here, as including anything else will just confuse matters.

Massive User Registration Tutorial - Custom HTML Forms - Part 1

is is a massive tutorial that teaches you how to build your own custom forms to use in your web pages. We will take as example a full registration form with its field verifications. You can obviously modify this code to suit your needs to build your custom forms. We'll see how to insert oform objects, how to make them look nice and how to validate each field to be sure thant your visitors provide the most accurate informations possible. First of all, have a look at the code below: yo

Making Accessible Forms Part 2 - Optimize the accessibility of your forms

As outlined in part 1 of this article, forms are one of the most crucial parts of your website. They're used to complete important tasks such as buying products and contacting you so their accessibility is crucial. This second part of our two-part article outlines some more ways to optimise the accessibility of your forms.

Creating Forms - Making Accessible Forms Part 1

orms are one of the most crucial parts of your website. Forms are used to: * Buy products * Sign up to newsletters * Contact you These are the goals of your website! When a web user fills out a form they're doing something you want them to do. Unless you make sure they're accessible to one and all, some of your site visitors may not be able to perform some of these crucial tasks. The group of users who can experience the most problems with forms is visually impaired users

E-mail Forms

have you ever been to a website and wanted to contact sombody? Have you found their contact page and then clicked on the e-mail or contact link only to be brought to a Yahoo!© or other e-mail provider window where you have to sign in and then send the message? Well, those are annoying aren't they, especially when you don't have an account with that company. So, this tutorial is going to show you some fairly simple code that puts a form in your contact page (or whatever page you insert the code

Basic Forms

his tutorial will give you a basic overview of forms, it will introduce the basic input fields and attributes. If you have used the internet, you've no doubt seen a form. Forms are useful tools, they allow you to collect information from your visitors, such as in a feedback form, you can use them to make a poll like the one you see to the right, and a lot more. The html involved in forms is quite simple, however the scripting needed to process these forms is not so easy and is beyond the sco

Applying CSS to forms

Forms are an essential part of interaction on the Internet but they can look rather drab. With CSS we can position form items so they all line up nicely and add a bit of colour to jazz them up.

Creating a Mailto Form

This tutorial walks you through creating a simple Java Script email form to your webpage. A form consists of multiple boxes to select, check, add text to. This form will be emailed to you upon completion.

Forms

Forms are very useful and are used for visitor feedback, guestbooks, surveys, ordering, and more.

Forms Presentation

You can keep your forms from slipping into mundanity by substituting the default gray submit button to a colourful graphic of your choosing. You can also use some simple bits of CSS to present your forms better: by adding backgrounds, borders and spacing.

Forms Accessibility

Many readers find HTML forms quite difficult to deal with, what with all the different elements to fill in. There are a variety of methods you can use to guide your readers through a complicated form. Make sure you’ve read through the basic forms tutorial before tackling this. tabindex You should know by now that you can navigate forms using your tab key (above caps-lock), pressing it to move between parts. Usually the focus will move sequentially between elements as they appear in the s

Basic Forms

Using simple HTML forms is a very slick way of receiving information from your visitors. You put a few boxes and buttons on your page, they enter in their details and you receive them through email — brilliant. orm Structure Just like the rest of HTML, forms follow a structure. The
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Using CSS in your forms

It's quite bright, but it does the trick for this tutorial. Without looking directly into the awful colors, direct your attention up there one more time. There are four new things you can add to your MSIE guestbook forms: * Background Color * Separate Text Color * Pop-Up Text Boxes onMouseOver * Colored Buttons Each of these are created using Style Sheet commands added right into the form element.

Limiting the use of checkboxes

Here's a fantastic effect. As you know, multiple checkboxes are often avoided in forms because users have a tendency to simply check all the boxes no matter what. Radio buttons have become the preferred element when a choice must be made. You mostly see checkboxes used as single items. I see them mostly at the end of larger forms asking if I want to receive a newsletter or email updates about a product I'm downloading. But what if you want a user to choose two from say, five elements? Well

Use an image for the submit button

There's no need showing you how the form is made. I go over that in the forms tutorial and the guestbook tutorial pretty well. What I am concerned with here is the input button.

How to add forms to your website

The form page outlined below is very basic. It will create a guestbook for you and it will send information to you. There are a bunch of extra commands that you can attach to these form deals. They will be covered in the Guestbook page. There you'll find ways to post a subject line, attach to a CGI, get rid of all those goofy extra characters, and more. But I would suggest you read this first before attacking the Guestbook tutorial.