HTML form tag and element
1. HTML form element is used to represent a form in an HTML page.
2. Forms are used to collect data supplied by users in an HTML document.
Syntax
<form> </from>
Category
HTML form element belongs to HTML forms.
Whether both start and end tags are required
Yes.
Can contain
HTML form element can contain inline elements and other block level elements.
Can reside within
HTML form element can reside within APPLET, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, CENTER, DD, DEL, DIV, FIELDSET, IFRAME, INS, LI, MAP, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, OBJECT, TD, TH.
Attributes
Attributes specific to this element
action, method, enctype, accept-charset, accept, name.
Identifiers
language information and text direction
Title
Style
Target frame information
Events
onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.
Supported doctypes
HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset.
Example of using HTML form element
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>HTML form tag example - HTML tutorial | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="example_ form" action="html-form-tag-example.html" >
Name: <input type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
Email: <input type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
Place: <input type="text" size="10" /><br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" / >
</form>
</body>
</html>
Result
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