- Forms
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As applied to documents on the World Wide Web, pages or sections of a page
that collect text input from you and then send the data back to the host or
server for processing.
An example is the portion of an airline reservation page that asks you to
fill in your destination and desired departure date. Another example is the
region on many Web search engine pages that asks you to fill in a set of
search words that describe what you're looking for.
Reading back the information you supply requires both forms capability in
the browser program you're using and CGI script or similar processing
capability in the server. Some Web pages provide both a forms-based
interface and a more limited or lengthy alternative view for browsers
without forms.
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