form tutorials

[bloodnok]

I have been practising html this year but am new to JS. I am looking
for a low-level tutorial on forms. I have a newbie's knowledge of the
DOM but the methods for collecting information such as posting or CGI
are unknowns to me.
I've contacted my ISP about POP3 settings as this was my problem with
my first test(as far as I know) but my limited reading indicates this
is not a satisfactory method with forms anyway. I will learn both
methods so as to be thorough. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[-Lost]

I have been practising html this year but am new to JS. I am looking
for a low-level tutorial on forms. I have a newbie's knowledge of the
DOM but the methods for collecting information such as posting or CGI
are unknowns to me.
I've contacted my ISP about POP3 settings as this was my problem with
my first test(as far as I know) but my limited reading indicates this
is not a satisfactory method with forms anyway. I will learn both
methods so as to be thorough. Any help would be appreciated.

Pay careful attention to these buzz words and/or phrases.

server-side script - a bit of programming on the server that processes forms or other data
in the background. CGIs for example.

client-side script - something like JavaScript, processing things like forms, images, et
cetera. This can be used to validate the contents of forms before submission to a CGI.

POP3 - deals with retrieving your e-mail via an e-mail client. Nothing to do with
JavaScript.

mailto - you can use the mailto Protocol in links or in the "action" attribute of a form.
This is what your ISP was referring to most likely.

DOM - is the Document Object Model that is created when a text document of markup is
rendered in a UA (User Agent, aka browsing device/application). This allows you to
traverse the document with client-side scripting like JavaScript.

Lastly, see:

http://w3schools.com/ - a nice site detailing several (I mean SEVERAL) aspects of web
technologies.

http://jibbering.com/faq/ - the FAQ maintained by a few geniuses-of-the-group that answers
several commonly asked questions as well as providing several links to further
information.

Bear in mind everything mentioned above, unless it was strictly concerning JavaScript is
off-topic and normally you get redirects to the appropriate newsgroup.

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html - for HTML
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets - for CSS

Et cetera.

-Lost