Archive for May, 2008

The Form Tag

May 30, 2008 at 3:03 am · Filed under Uncategorized

The purpose of the form

Forms provide an interface for collecting, displaying, and delivering information. Forms providing different controls such as text fields, buttons, and checkboxes, forms can enhance Web pages with a means to exchange information between a client and a server. The various controls allow authors and users to perform actions, make choices, and quickly identify and enter information. When the form data is submitted to the server- or client-side script, the information either is parsed and catalogued, or redirected in response to the submission.

The typical contents between <form> and </form> are

  • The <form> element (the container for everything that is to follow)
  • <input> – which includes many types, including text, submit, button, radio button and checkbox
  contents Purpose
1 input type=”text” Single-line text field
2 input type=”password” Text field masked with asterisks
3 input type=”button” input element as a button
4 input type=”submit” Button that sends all the information for a particular form to the script or program specified in the action attribute
5 input type=”radio” selecting one item from a set
6 input type=”checkbox” selecting multiple groups of topics
7 select Drop down list
8 Textarea Entering multi-line text
9 input type=”reset” Button that resets all form values
10 input type=hidden Hidden control
11 input type=file Nonscriptable text field and Browse button
12 input type=image Submit control as an image

The significance of the form attribute is

Action

The value of the action is URL .When the user clicks on the “Submit” button, the content of the form is sent to another file. The form’s action attribute defines the name of the file to send the content to. The file defined in the action attribute usually does something with the received input.

methods

The methods has two value get and post the default value get   The HTTP method for sending data to the action URL

method=”get”: This method sends the form contents in the URL:

method=”post”: This method sends the form contents in the body of the request.

Enctype

The value is mime type

The mimetype is used to encode the value of the form.  

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My experience in IT

May 20, 2008 at 2:37 am · Filed under Uncategorized

My experience in IT

 

Hi every body, my name Hamood Said Al-Abri  , I ‘m from sultanate of Oman , my bachelor degree in Statistic. I worked for seven years as Statistician Specialist.

 

I do not have that  much to say About my experience in  Information Technology (IT). I got short courses mainly In Ms Office such as Excel and Access. In addition Networking   and little knowledge about HTML Language  . Unfortunately I  do not have any web site or personal  web log . Mean while I spend some time to read about interesting news regarding new software and hardware.

 

Since I have to deal with data issues such as  origination,  publication and of course analysation  by using IT tools, my  company request to obtain professional knowledge in IT.

 

My previous courses are

 

  • Introduction to Excel
  • Introduction to Access
  • Networking
  • Introduction to HTML

 

 

This is my second semester in Bond I finished already introduction to programming subject . I hope to gain skills regarding web pages  through this  web application subject.

 

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