HTML Form Example

Form is one of the most important elements in web application development, whenever we want to receive user input through our web pages, we use form, in this tutorial we learn different aspect of form designing in web page.

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HTML Form Designing Tutorial

How to design From in HTML page designing!

Form tag <Form/> is used when we want to create a online form to capture data from end user

This is how your From tag may look like.

<from action="destination-page-url" method="post">
<input type="text" id="txtName" name="txtName"/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />     
</from>

This is how your form will look like

Remember, while submitting the form, the method can be either method=post or method= get

Html Form methods

method=post

all fields values will be posted directly, fields values will not be displayed in url
method= get

all fields values will be passed through querystring, and fields values will be displayed in url

You can add any number of fields as per your business requirement inside the form tag, also can change the form display style using Css class.

here is another form example with different control type

Note : here we have used a table to design the form elements, but you can use div with css, that will be more responsive design and have better rendering.

Html Form Example

Here is the output

Notice, After submitting this form you will be able to see all the selected values on address bar, because we have kept form method = get.

enctype Attribute in html form

Now you learn another html form attribute called enctype, when you don't define anything then application/x-www-form-urlencoded is default type.

There are three type of enctype in html form

enctype Value: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

All characters are encoded before sent (special characters are converted to ASCII HEX values and space is converted to "+" symbol), This is Default
enctype Value: multipart/form-data

Normally we use this when uploading any document, No characters are encoded
text/plain

Special characters are encoded, but space is converted to "+" symbol

Here is an example of enctype

<from action="destination-page-url" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" id="idFilename" name="txtFilename"/>
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</from>

Login Form example Here is another example of how you can write html code for a login form.

Code sample

<form action="destination-url" method="post">
<div>
<div>Username</div>
<input type="text" id="txtUsername" name="txtUsername" style="width: 80%;" />
</div>
<div>
<div>Password</div>
<input type="password" id="txtPassword" name="txtPassword" style="width: 80%;" />
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<input type="submit" value="Login" />
</div>
</form>

Advanced form designing

Now to make the form look little better and responsive you can use bootstrap classes, the advantage of bootstrap form is that will get adjusted automatically in different device like, desktop, tablet, mobile etc