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- Formbuddy
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Chapter 9 Forms
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, including 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.
Server-Side Technologies
Privacy & Form Processing
Free Server-Side Scripts
Browser Support for HTML5 Form Controls
- http://caniuse.com (also CSS3 browser support information)
- http://findmebyip.com/litmus (also CSS3 browser support information)
- http://html5readiness.com
Server-Side Script
The server-side script used in the chapter is written in PHP. View the source code.
Chapter Updates
- Page 416, Table 9.2
The values listed for the autocomplete attribute should be
"on, off, token value".
- Page 422, File Upload Control
There are errors in the code sample. The correct code is shown below:
<input type="file"
name="photo"
id="photo"
accept="image/*"> - Page 423
Figure 9.9 replacement
- Page 437, Hands-On Practice 9.6
- Step 2a
Configure 1.5em padding - Step 2b
Review the grid sketch in Figure 9.20
- Step 2a
- Path of Light Yoga Studio Case Study
- Page 466, Create the Contact page shown in Figure 9.46.
- Page 467, Step 3
Modify your contact.html file to look similar to the Contact page (shown in Figure 9.46)
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Review Activities
Review activities are available for this chapter. Check your knowledge of chapter terms and concepts.