HTML form tag is used to add a form to your website and get user input data. A user input data can be name, email and the query message from the user. This is useful when you want to make a community for your blog or website. A community of users is very helpful for your blog when you want visitors to your website.
A community of active users increase search traffic for your blog. You can add newsletter to your blog using a form to get email id of user. After you get email, you can fire a blog posts daily to your subcriber. By doing this, you can increase your returning visitors.
HTML Form tag Syntax
The simple syntax to put forms inside HTML is given below:
1 2 3 | <form action="action url here" method="get|post"> Put other form elements here... </form> |
For Example:
This is the example for attribute enctype, you can use this example to upload form data in format of files.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML Form tag example to upload files</title> </head> <body> <form action="script url" method="get|post" enctype="mutlipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="myfile" id="fileupload"/> </form> </body> </html> |
Output
List of HTML form tag attributes
| Sr. No. | form atribute options | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | action | action URL contains the location of the script file that handles the form data. |
| 2 | method | An HTTP method GET and POST can be used when submitting the form data. |
| 3 | target | The target attribute ise used when you want visitors to run the script in the new or same window. The values of this attribute are _blank, _self, _parent, _top. |
| 4 | enctype | enctype attribute is used when you want to upload files like image, doc etc. Use valus mutlipart/form-data. for this. |
List of HTML form tag
| Sr. No. | tags | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | <Input> | Define input control inside the form. This is of various types like text, email, checkbox etc. Checkout HTML input tag for more details. | 3 | <button> | A clickable button can be define using this tag. Checkout HTML button tag to learn more about this. |
| 4 | <option> | HTML option tag is used to show selectable options. |
| 5 | <label> | When you want to show labels for form elements, you use HTML label tag. |
| 6 | <textarea> | To get message from users, a multiline input text is required. Use HTML textarea tag to to do this. |