HTML form tag

Last Updated on April 26, 2023 by Roshan Parihar

HTML Form tag is used when you want to collect your website users or visitors data.

A form contains many controls such as input field, password field, radio buttons, checkboxes, submit buttons etc.

Syntax

<form action="script url" method="get or post">
form elements to put here like input, checkbox etc.
</form>

form elements to put here like input, checkbox etc.

</form>

This is the example for attribute enctype, you can use this example to upload form data in format of files.

<form action="#" method="post" enctype="mutlipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="myfile" id="fileupload"/>
</form>

</form>

Output

Sr. No.	target atribute options	Description
1	action	This attribute contains the url of script file that handles the form data.
2	method	This specified the HTTP method GET and POST to be used when submitting the form data.
3	target	This specified the target window where we want to display the script. The values of this attribute are _blank, _self, _parent, _top.
4	enctype	This attribute can be used when you want to upload files like image, doc etc. The value for this is mutlipart/form-data.

Sr. No.	tags
1	<Input>	This tag defines input control with various types like text, email, checkbox etc. See HTML input tag for more details.
2	<button>	This is used to show clickable button. See HTML button tag for more details.
3	<option>	This is used inside select tag to show selectable options. See HTML option tag for more details.
4	<label>	This is used to show label of input field. See HTML label tag for more details.
5	<textarea>	This use to shows the multiline input text. See HTML textarea tag for more details.
6	<select>	This is used to show select options of input field. See HTML select tag for more details.