note 86146 deleted from tutorial.forms by philip

Note Submitter: wbcarts at juno dot com ---- Good tips everybody, thanks! A brief summary: SERVER-SIDE PROCESSING (GET and POST) <!-- If your form submission WILL NOT WRITE anything on the SERVER-SIDE, use GET --> <form action="action.php" method="get"> <!-- If your form submission WILL WRITE some data on the SERVER-SIDE, use POST --> <form action="action.php" method="post"> CLIENT-SIDE PROCESSING (ID and NAME) <!-- If the CLIENT-SIDE NEEDS to access or modify this field, use the id attribute --> <input id="firstName" name="firstName" type="text"> <!-- create a script that runs on the CLIENT-SIDE to access and modify the field --> <script type="javascript"> var firstName = document.getElementById("firstName"); firstName.value = 'some text'; firstName.focus(); </script> <!-- If the CLIENT-SIDE DOES NOT NEED to access or modify this field, --> <!-- then there is no need for the ID attribute or a client side script --> <input name="firstName" type="text"> Note the HTML SYNTAX: - In <form>, 'get' and 'post' are the VALUE of the attribute named 'method'. - In <input>, 'id' and 'name' are the NAME of the attribute with values of 'firstName'.