Operation Manual

124 Forms
Inserting forms
Web-based forms allow information to be collected from visitors to your
website in an efficient and modern manner.
Form data can be collected in a variety of ways—by email, to a
local/remote script file, or via Serif Web Resources. See Submission of
forms on p. 131.
Form Structure
The building blocks of a form comprise a mixture of text labels and form
fields. A field can be for a button, edit box, date picker, text area, combo
box, check box, radio button, file upload, or CAPTCHA object. A typical
form, perhaps an email feedback form, is made up of a combination of
some of these fields.
From the web visitor's perspective, information is typed into text boxes
or selected from check boxes, radio buttons, or drop-down boxes. The
information entered can be numeric, textual, or a mixture of both,
depending on the type of field. The tab order by which fields are to be