HCI 201 Fall 1999: Forms

HCI 201 Multimedia and the World Wide Web

<FORM> </FORM>
- ACTION="url"
- METHOD="GET" or "POST" (more about this on the next page)
Encoding -- Spaces and other special characters must get translated (or encoded). This determines how they are handled.
- ENCTYPE="encoding"
  - application/x-www-form-urlencoded -- the default; aka Internet Media Type
  - multipart/form-data -- only if form contains <INPUT TYPE="file"> element
  - text/plain
Example of FORM tag syntax:
<FORM ACTION="mailto:hmartch@cti.depaul.edu" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain">...</FORM>