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How forms work - Dreamweaver Tutorial
From the course: Dreamweaver CS5 Essential Training
How forms work
In all my years of teaching web design, some of the most frequently asked questions that new designers ask center around the building of and the functionality of online forms. In this chapter we will examine using Dreamweaver to help us build and style clean and accessible forms. Unfortunately, making the forms functional is a bit outside the scope of this course. For more information on the processing form data, see David Gassner's Dreamweaver Dynamic Development title in the lynda.com Online Training Library. However, before we begin building our form, it's important that conceptually you understand how forms work and how websites generally process form data. One of the most popular misconceptions about forms is that the form itself does any work at all. For the most part, forms merely collect the data from your user and send it to another page or script to be processed. This page is typically referred to, logically enough, as the processing page. This page often shows a message…
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How forms work3m
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Reviewing form design3m 2s
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Creating accessible forms7m 33s
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Setting form properties4m 6s
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The fieldset and legend tags4m 32s
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Inserting text fields5m 58s
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Inserting list menu items5m 26s
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Inserting checkboxes7m 50s
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Inserting radio button groups6m 22s
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Inserting text areas4m 12s
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Inserting submit buttons3m 37s
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Basic form styling12m
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Form element styling8m 52s
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Styling form layout11m 49s
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Adding form interactivity2m 47s
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Using Spry validation widgets12m 49s
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