Slide 2.9: Web user interface construction [(X)HTML]

Programming Exercise I Construction (Cont.)

Web User Interface Construction [(X)HTML]

~/public_html/course/513/2/9.html (HTML) (text)

<html>
 ...
 <form method="post" 
   action="http://undcemcs01.und.edu/~wen.chen.hu/cgi-bin/demo/10/ListCourses.cgi">
  Students’ names:
  <input type="checkbox" name="Poke Mon"  value="1" checked="checked" /> Poke Mon,
  <input type="checkbox" name="Sponge Bob" value="1" /> Sponge Bob,
  <input type="checkbox" name="all"     value="1" /> All students, or
  <input type="text"     name="student" value="Mon" size="10" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="List courses" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="HTML source" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="CGI source" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="Perl source" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="Java source" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="SQL source" />
  <input type="submit"   name="act"     value="Help" />
  <input type="reset"                   value="Reset" />
 </form>
   ...
</html>

http://undcemcs01.und.edu/~wen.chen.hu/course/513/2/9.html

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Students’ names: Poke Mon, Sponge Bob, All students, or

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http://undcemcs01.und.edu/~wen.chen.hu/cgi-bin/demo/10/ListCourses.cgi

HTML forms are used to select different kinds of user input. A form is an area that can contain form elements. Form elements are elements that allow the user to enter information (like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.) in a form.

type="checkbox", which lets a user select one or more options of a limited number of choices,
type="text", which specifies a single line text entry field within the form that contains it,
type="submit", which submits the form when a user clicks the button, and
type="reset", which re-sets all the fields in the form to their initial values when a user clicks the button.