HTML forms: collecting input from users
16-minute lesson · module-webapps-02
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HTML forms: collecting input from users
16-minute lesson · module-webapps-02
- Write a basic HTML form with text fields and a submit button.
- Explain how the action and method attributes control where and how a form submits.
- Choose GET versus POST for a given form and justify the choice.
- Connect a form field's name attribute to the key the server will read.
Source attribution
Status: adapted
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition — source · Web Applications / Web Applications And Html Forms / Sending Data To A Web Application
Adaptation notes. Read-along lesson; no graded coding step because the server side cannot run in the Pyodide sandbox. The HTML form examples are for reading. A course-search form is the running example; prose is original.
License notes. Original chapter is GNU FDL 1.3 (Brad Miller, David Ranum, and the upstream Elkner/Downey/Meyers text). No verbatim text reproduced.