Head First html and css

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Getting Interactive
html forms
So far all your web communication has been one-way: 
from your page to your visitors.
Golly, wouldn’t it be nice if your visitors 
could talk back? That’s where HTML forms come in: once you enable your pages 
with forms (along with a little help from a web server), your pages are going to be 
able to gather customer feedback, take an online order, get the next move in an 
online game, or collect the votes in a “hot or not” contest. In this chapter you’re going 
to meet a whole team of HTML elements that work together to create web forms. 
You’ll also learn a bit about what goes on behind the scenes in the server to support 
forms, and we’ll even talk about keeping those forms stylish.
How 
forms 
work 
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What you write in HTML 
 
 
 
 
648
What 
the 
browser 
creates 
649
How the 

 
element 
works 
650
Getting ready to build the Bean Machine form
 
660
Adding the 

 
element 
661
How form element names work 
 
 
 
662
Back to getting those 

 elements into your HTML
664
Adding some more input elements to your form
 
665
Adding the 

 
element 
666
Give the customer a choice of whole or ground beans 
 
668
Punching 
the 
radio 
buttons 
669
Using 
more 
input 
types 
670
Adding the number and date input types 
 
 
671
Completing 
the 
form 672
Adding the checkboxes and text area
 
 
673
Watching 
GET 
in 
action 
679
Getting the form elements into HTML structure
 
684
Styling the form with CSS
 
 
 
686
A 
word 
about 
accessibility 
688
What more could possibly go into a form? 
 
 
689
Exercise 
Solutions 
 
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