Marusya's School Notes

Form: Action

The action attribute defines the action to be performed when the form is submitted. The common way to submit a form to a server, is by using a submit button. Normally, the form is submitted to a web page on a web server, where a server-side script handles the data. Actions are implemented with this line:

<form action="http://www.w3schools.com/html/action_page.php">

HTML file:	Displayed by browser:
<form action="http://www.w3schools.com/html/action_page.php"> First name:<br /> <input type="text" name="firstname" value="Mickey"> <br /><br /> Last name:<br /> <input type="text" name="lastname" value="Mouse"> <br /><br /> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>	First name: Last name:

Notes:

If the action attribute is omitted, the browser will set it to the current page. This means that you are just setting it as "no action" and the input goes nowhere.

Just like the value attribute for the submit button defines what this button says, this same attribute also define what appears in the text input boxes.