Forms are used for many purposes all over the Web. They are used by search engines to accept keywords and by online stores to process e-commerce shopping carts.

Web sites use forms to help with a variety of functions ranging from accepting visitor feedback, encouraging visitors to send a news story to a friend or colleague, collecting email addresses for a newsletter, and accepting order information.

This chapter introduces a very powerful tool for web developers - using forms on web pages to accept information from your visitors.

The server-side script used in the chapter is written in VBscript using a technology called Active Server Pages (ASP). View the source code.

Every attempt is made to produce a perfect book but sometimes errors just creep in...

1. The label tag is a container element. It should always be coded with both an opening and a closing tag. The first example for using the <label> tag is incorrect, it should be:
<label>E-mail: <input type="text" name="CustomerEmail" /></label>

2. JavaJam Coffee House Web Site Case Study Page 218 - 220. To obtain a web page most similar to the one in the text, set the background color of the table that contains the form to bgcolor="#FFFFCC". You may have found a different solution. That's great! There are many ways to code a web page and achieve similar results.

3. Page 220 -- The second bullet point on the page should suggest that you use the background color of #999966 instead of #99966 for the background color of the cells in the first column.

4. Page 227-- the answer to #11 should be maxlength instead of maxsize.