Web Forms Basics
Explore how web forms collect and submit user data using various controls like textboxes and buttons. Understand the process from user input to server processing and asynchronous communication. This lesson prepares you to build and use web forms effectively on the client side.
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Web pages are not just for reading documents and articles but are also for social and business applications. You can hardly imagine any kind of web app without asking for some data from users; just think about the most common functions like login and registration.
HTML forms have been a part of the markup since the earliest versions, and now, after several tweaks we have a refined model of forms in HTML5 that still works with older browsers.
How web forms work
The image below shows a web form in action which contains user interface components or controls. Not only are textboxes, ...