CDF - Capturing Data with Forms Module Overview

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Capturing Data with Forms Module Overview

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We have spent much time providing you with information on how to design a website and enhance it with CSS and tables.  Your role as a web designer will also include creating web forms to gather information for clients. More than likely, you completed forms while visiting one of your favorite websites. At that time, you probably did not give any thought to the coding used to create the form.  This module will provide you with the knowledge needed to create a web form using HTML. You will discover the types of forms and input fields associated with form development. You will also discover various options for processing the data so that information can be shared with the appropriate stakeholders.

 

Essential Questions

  • What are the standard components of a web form?
  • What recommendations would you make for creating user-friendly forms?
  • What security options are available for form collection to ensure data is not compromised?

 

Key Terms

  1. Command button - runs a command on the web page.
  2. Control elements - buttons, boxes, and lists that provide a way of associating field value with a particular field.
  3. Data - the facts and answers which are considered the field values.
  4. Get method - appends the form data to the end of the URL specified in the action attribute.
  5. Hidden field - field added to the form but not displayed on the web page.
  6. Information - the interpretation of the data.
  7. Post method - sends form data in a separate stream.
  8. Primary key - the field that identifies a record.
  9. Reset button - resets a form and deletes entered values.
  10. Submit button - submits a form to the server for processing when clicked.
  11. SSL Certificate - activates the padlock and the https protocol that allows secure connections from a web server to a browser.

 

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