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Creating Forms with FrontPage
FrontPage forms only work if you have the extensions. However,
you can use FP to create the form your visitors use with FP, then use either a
perl script or a JavaScript to direct the form input to your email. You
can create other types of forms fur use with the FP extensions such as a guest
book or message board. Once you have mastered a basic mailto form, the rest will
come easily.
Click on the image, it will open in another window.
To create a form, click Insert - Form - now what?!
The last fly out gives us specific choices, depending on how we want to use
the form.
We can choose:
One line text boxes are used anyplace you want the visitor to
type in a relatively small amount of text/numbers such as name or email
address.
- Scrolling Text Box
- A scrolling text box allows for a paragraph or two, such as a comments section
in a guest book.
- Check Box
- A check box is used when you want to allow your visitors to make
multiple choices from a list of options, such as choosing the ages of
their children, or what magazines they read from the list.
- Radio Button
- Radio buttons are used when you want them to choose only one item from
the list, such as there own age.
- Drop Down Menu
- Drop Down Menus are used when the list of choices is fairly long, or
you don't want to give a lot of space to it on your page. They are an
excellent replacement for regular check boxes.
- Push Button
- Push Buttons are used to send the contents of the form on there way to
be processed. (We'll talk more about the functions of push buttons a
little later).
- Label
- Allows the visitor to click on the text next to a check box or radio
button to activate it.
- Form
- Pressing the form button at the top "begins" the form,
without any of the other items. You will get a form with only a submit and
reset button.
Chapter 2
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