Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Radio Button, Surveymonkey, Checkbox

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Vivi Tryphonopoulos

Document Summary

Online forms offer: speed quicker deployment, wider audience, efficiency collection of data, anonymity leads to frankness, automation format diverseness of data, cost-effective process no paper or postage, e-commerce add-ins. What makes up a form: form: Action what should it do when submit is clicked: data collection: Build a form yourself: a web provider hosts the web pages and provides instructions on how the form will be processed, you are responsible for creating: A form with web editing software (dreamweaver, html code) An email template what replies go to the submitter and form owner. Access to server"s cgi scripts to process the form (web host provides this) Reporting is done when data results are imported. Create the form: extension . html, use web authoring or html, set up form (red outline in dreamweaver, add questions and form elements: Checkbox check more than 1 item. Radio button check only 1 item. Button name used to submit or reset.