HCI 201 Multimedia and the World Wide Web
Fall 1999 - Section 703 - Forms
<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>
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