Making Forms

Making Forms in HTML
Psychology 212h with Prof. Davis

Step 1: Creating the form:
- All the essential elements of a form (including text fields, pop-up menus, radio buttons, and submit buttons) can be found under the Insert menu at the top of the screen, and then under the Forms sub-menu.
- It is necessary to insert a Submit button for users to respond to a form.

Step 2: Directing responses:
- Responses should be directed to:
- Do this by inserting a Hidden Entry (also under the Forms sub-menu).
- This will automatically bring up a window in which you can enter the appropriate recipient:
Step 3: Form action:
- Information is submitted from forms by a mechanism similar to email.
- Because Netscape gets confused between forms and email, forms must use a program called FormMail.pl to send information.
- The location of this program is:
  http://www.students.haverford.edu/cgi-bin/acc/FormMail.pl
- Use the Document Option button on the tool bar (7th from the left in Claris HomePage 2.0) to open an "Options" window.
- Select Advanced in the pop-up menu on the top left of this window.
- Type the location of the program as listed above.