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An HTML form is a section of a document containing normal content, markup, special elements called controls which could include: checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, etc., and labels on those controls. Users generally complete a form by modifying its controls (entering text, selecting menu items, etc.), before submitting the form for processing (e.g., to a Web server, to a mail server, etc.). Forms are defined using the <form> tag.

Webforms can be used to enter shipping or credit card data to order a product or can be used to retrieve data. In addition to functioning as input templates for new information webforms can also be used to query and display existing data. When you write a form, each of your input items has a tag. When the user places data in these items in the form, that information is encoded into the form data.

Below is a sample form.