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Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/html-forms/

Some places that teach form coding

junior.apk.net/~jbarta/tutor/forms/index.html
www.cwru.edu/help/interHTML/toc.html

Some forms and code snippets

Text field - for single lines of input.  Code can be set to password state, where it won't display

Code 

Text box - for multiple lines of input.

Code

Check boxes - for when multiple options are possible

Code

Central air  Cable TV
Radio buttons - for when only one option is possible

Code

Male   Female
Pull down menu - allows only one selection

Code

List menu - allows multiple selections

Code

Image list - I don't recall this one right now

Code

Buttons

Technical info on form processing

Processing forms through E-mail  and free scripts
Using Javascripts with forms

Info and CGI scripts

Free CGI scripts hosted remotely
Hostedscripts.com
More hosted scripts
A whole mess of hosted formmail scripts

Bignosebird.com
HTML Wizards
The CGI Resource Index

HTML requirement and a Netscape bug

Navigator won't display form elements without the <FORM> tag around them
Navigator 3 often overwrites forms placed in tables

It took me forever to learn this...

If you just want a button to go to a page, try this:

<FORM METHOD="get" ACTION="http://yahoo.com">
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Go to Yahoo">
</FORM>

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