Chapter 5
Using Forms to Make a Page Interactive
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding web form basics
Adding a button or two
Inserting text boxes and text areas
Adding checkboxes and radio buttons
Working with lists and labels
Putting a picker on your page
From humble beginnings, forms in HTML5 are now tremendously flexible and powerful, providing natively much of the functionality that we as developers have been adding in with JavaScript over the years.
— PETER GASSTON
Publishing pages on the web is definitely an exhilarating experience. But after that initial excitement wears off, one post-publishing effect you may notice is that your pages just kind of sit there. True, sitting there isn’t a terrible state for a page since the real point of publishing to the web is to put out info that other people want to read. In that case, having the page just sit there is a good thing.
Still, it would ...
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