HTML Forms

1. HTML Forms are required when you want to collect some data from the site visitor.For example during user registration you would like to collect information such as name, email address, credit card, etc.
2. There are various form elements available like text fields, textarea fields, drop-down menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.
3. The HTML <form> tag is used to create an HTML form.
4. Apart from common attributes, following is a list of the most frequently used form attributes:
   action Backend script ready to process your passed data.
   method Method to be used to upload data. The most frequently used are GET and POST methods.
   target Specify the target window or frame where the result of the script will be displayed. It takes values like _blank, _self, _parent etc.
5. There are different types of form controls that you can use to collect data using HTML form:
     
6. Those are:
   Single-line text input controls <input type="text" name="name"/>
   Password input controls <input type="password" name="pwd" />
   Email input controls <input type="email" name="email" />
   Number input controls <input type="number" name="number" />
   Dae input controls <input type="date" name="date" /> 
   Multi-line input controls <textarea rows="5" cols="50" name="description"/>
   Checkbox controls <input type="checkbox" name="m1" />
   Radio Button controls <input type="radio" name="male" />
   Select Box controls <select name="select" ><option value="Maths">Maths</option>
   File upload box <input type="file" name="fileupload" accept="image/*" />
   Button controls <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> 
   <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" /> 
   <input type="button" name="ok" value="OK" /> 
   <input type="image" name="imagebutton" src="/html/images/logo.png" /> 
   color <input type="color" name="color" /> 
   search <input type="search" name="search" /> 
   url <input type="url" name="url" /> 
7. Some attributes of form controls size, maxlength, checked, multiple, placeholder, value, pattern