JavaScript/HTML Forms?

[SexayMistahBee]

in this HTML tutorial,
http://w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

it says that the form element is
<form>
blahblah
</form>

but in this JavaScript one, it doesn't use any tags.

What is the difference? :/

 

[Terrankiller]

One uses tags one doesn't use tags.

 

[sm321]

They are different languages. HTML uses tags such as <i> and </i>, <b> and </b> etc. JavaScript is used with parts of your HTML. For example, JavaScript could be used to check if the user had put text into the name field and not numbers.

 

[Noam]

Javascript can be used to dynamically create forms with GetInnerHTML()
That's pretty much it. Forms are nearly useless without any server-side application anyways, so you have to use PHP, ASP, or some other server side system to get anything to work.

 

[Draucia]

If you need some simple form, I would recommend you use PHP. W3schools has a nice tutorial on it.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp

And what do you want to do with the data? If you want to insert it into a table, you can use mysql_query() to insert the data into a table of your choice. There's lots of tutorials on that on google, but if you need help creating a db, table, or inserting data tell me and I can guide you through it.