CPSCI 107: Applications, Implications, and Issues

Lab 8

March 8, 2006

Preliminaries

1. Log in to your account on warp and make public_html/eg your working directory.
2. Copy the file form-test.html from the directory /home/public/web-authoring to your working directory:
   cp /home/public/web-authoring/form-test.html .
3. Open your warp homepage in your favorite browser; modify the URL in the address bar to open the file you just copied into your webspace.
4. Enter the requested information and click on the appropriate button to submit the form for processing. The browser should load a web page displaying a table of what it could read from your form. If it doesn't, call me over and we'll figure out what the problem is.
5. Go back to the webpage containing the form and clear it, using the button at the bottom of the page. Submit the empty form. Note any differences in the table displayed in response to your form.

Forms

The primary purpose of the form-test.html file is to give you the URL of the CGI program that we'll be using to process the forms we'll be making in class.

Today we'll discuss:

• the action and method attributes of the form element
• the difference between the name and id attributes of the input element
• the label element
• textbox, radio button, and submit/reset controls

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