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The <Form> Tag (XHTML Reference)
Introduction
The <form> tag creates a form into the webpage. In the
form block the user can fill any textfields, select any data from the drop down
list control etc. Once the user has selected/entered the data he wants, he can
press the submit button and the data in the form is send. Many things can be
done with the data now. You can send the data to another page, which can
process it. Usually these are server-side pages like asp, php, asp.net, cgi
etc. that can do this. Or you could send the data via an email to somebody
else. I am sure that you have seen some shopping carts on the web. Usually when
you order something via a shopping cart then you have to press a button for
further processing. This all is possible with the form tag.
This contains the url where the data has to be send. You
can also use here an email address if you want to send the data via email.
For that purpose you have to use the mailto: prefix.
Something like this:
