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Starting With a Standard Web Form

A standard form includes a set of form tags with custom form fields, such as a name, city, state and so on. In order to successfully submit a form these form elements must have a unique name, so we can retrieve the value with a server-side language when the form is submitted. How we gather this information on the server-side is based on the method in which the form is sent, either a get or a post. Where we send it to is based on the action defined in the opening form tag and if it's left empty the page submits to itself. Listing 1 shows a standard Web form that submits to itself, uses the post method and sends a name and a message to the server on submission.

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