Abstract
This chapter focuses on the forms of web applications. Forms are a distinguishing characteristic of web applications. By using form elements (e.g., text boxes, dropdown lists, scrolling lists, radio buttons, checkboxes, and action buttons), web applications allow users to accomplish goals such as buying products and services, making flight reservations, finding directions, or uploading and sharing photos. To ensure that users can accomplish their goals successfully, it is important that forms are not cumbersome and are designed such that their purpose is clear. Web applications are developed using HTML and do not offer all the form controls available on popular platforms such as Windows and Macintosh. The interaction in web applications is limited to the form elements like text fields (single line and multiline), radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdown lists, scrolling lists, buttons (including image buttons), and a special control to browse files. Some of the missing controls are spin control, combo-box, tree control, and tabs. Although these controls have been implemented using some clever combinations of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, they are workarounds and not true controls, because they are not available as part of the basic markup language.
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