User Guide

Using Forms to Specify the Data to Retrieve 43

<p>

Contractor? <input type="checkbox" name="Contractor" value="Yes"

checked>Yes

</p>

</form>

</body>

</html>

3 Save the page as formpage.cfm within the myapps directory under your Web root

directory.

4 View the form in a browser.

The form appears in the browser.

Remember that you need an action page in order to submit values; you will create

one later in this chapter.

Reviewing the code

The following table describes the highlighted code and its function:.

Code Description

<form action="actionpage.cfm"

method="post">

Gather the information from this form

using the Post method, and do something

with it on the page actionpage.cfm.

<input type="Text" name="FirstName"

size="20" maxlength="35">

Create a text box called FirstName where

users can enter their first name. Make it

20 characters wide, but allow input of up

to 35 characters.

<input type="Text" name="LastName"

size="20" maxlength="35">

Create a text box called LastName where

users can enter their first name. Make it

20 characters wide, but allow input of up

to 35 characters.

<input type="Text" name="Salary"

size="10" maxlength="10">

Create a text box called Salary where

users can enter a salary to look for. Make

it 10 characters wide, and allow input of

up to 10 characters.