HTML Data Capture Forms

HTML Forms are electronic forms that are used to capture data from website visitors.

These electronic forms are comprised of data capture fields, field descriptions and buttons. When a visitor submits a form, the form content can be either sent to a designated email address or stored in a file or database.

Example of the form field objects that can be added to a form are illustrated below:

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Because an HTML form is processed on a web server, the server must be able to support the back-end processing requirements (i.e. logic to validate the data, store the data or email the form contents.