How to make a form using Dreamweaver at my website?

Hello You have quite a few options to create a form in dreamweaver for your website decide the type of form you require for website then using form tag from insert option you can view form field list in the side pane from where you can drag and drop the field needed for your form , you can also stylize it either using css file from templates or creating your own css file read less

Hi Naina Here are the steps to create a Form in dreamweaver Create an HTML form As part of HTML5 support, new attributes have been introduced in the Properties panel for form elements. In addition, four new form elements (E-mail, search, telephone, URL) have been introduced in the Forms section of the Insert panel. For more information, see Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements. Open a page and place the insertion point where you want the form to appear. Select Insert > Form, or select the Forms category in the Insert panel and click the Form icon. In Design view, forms are indicated by a dotted red outline. If you don’t see this outline, select View > Visual Aids > Invisible Elements. Set the properties of the HTML form in the Property inspector (Window >Properties): a.In the Document window, click the form outline to select the form. b.In the Form Name box, type a unique name to identify the form. Naming a form makes it possible to reference or control the form with a scripting language, such as JavaScript or VBScript. If you do not name the form, Dreamweaver generates a name using the syntax formn, and increments the value of n for each form added to the page. c.In the Action box, specify the page or script that will process the form data by typing the path, or clicking the folder icon to navigate to the appropriate page or script. Example: processorder.php. d.In the Method pop?up menu, specify the method to transmit the form data to the server. Set any of the following options: Default Uses the browser’s default setting to send the form data to the server. Typically, the default value is the GET method. GET Appends the value to the URL requesting the page. POST Embeds the form data in the HTTP request. Do not use the GET method to send long forms. URLs are limited to 8192 characters. If the amount of data sent is too large, data will be truncated, leading to unexpected or failed processing results. Dynamic pages generated by parameters passed by the GET method can be bookmarked because all the values needed to regenerate the page are contained in the URL displayed in the browser’s Address box. In contrast, dynamic pages generated by parameters passed by the POST method cannot be bookmarked. If you collect confidential user names and passwords, credit card numbers, or other confidential information, the POST method may appear more secure than the GET method. However, the information sent by the POST method is not encrypted and can easily be retrieved by a hacker. To ensure security, use a secure connection to a secure server. e.(Optional) In the Enctype pop?up menu, specify the MIME encoding type of the data submitted to the server for processing. The default setting of application/x-www-form-urlencode is typically used in conjunction with the POST method. If you are creating a file-upload field, specify the multipart/form?data MIME type. f.(Optional) In the Target pop?up menu, specify the window in which to display the data returned by the invoked program. If the named window is not already open, a new window with that name opens. Set any of the following target values: _blank Opens the destination document in a new unnamed window. _parent Opens the destination document in the parent window of the one displaying the current document. _self Opens the destination document in the same window as the one in which the form was submitted. _top Opens the destination document in the body of the current window. This value can be used to ensure that the destination document takes over the full window even if the original document was displayed in a frame. Insert form objects in the page: a.Place the insertion point where the form object should appear in the form. b.the object in the Insert > Form menu, or in the Forms category of the Insert panel. c.Complete the Input Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box. For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box. Note: If you don’t see the Input Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box, you might have had the Insertion point in Code view when you tried to insert the form object. Make sure the Insertion point is in Design view and try again. For more information on this topic, see David Powers’s article Creating HTML forms in Dreamweaver. d.Set the properties of the objects. e.Enter a name for the object in the Property inspector. Every text field, hidden field, check box, and list/menu object must have a unique name that identifies the object in the form. Form object names cannot contain spaces or special characters. You can use any combination of alphanumeric characters and an underscore (_). The label you assign to the object is the variable name that stores the value (the entered data) of the field. This is the value sent to the server for processing. Note: All radio buttons in a group must have the same name. f.To label the text field, check box, or radio button object on the page, click beside the object and type the label. Adjust the layout of the form. Use line breaks, paragraph breaks, preformatted text, or tables to format your forms. You cannot insert a form in another form (that is, you cannot overlap tags), but you can include more than one form in a page. When designing forms, remember to label the form fields with descriptive text to let users know what they’re responding to—for example, “Type your name” to request name information. Use tables to provide structure for form objects and field labels. 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