Lab 16: Form and Action

"logic will get you from A to B - imagination will take you anywhere"

How to use Form to invoke a remote service through CGI.

1. Copy the search box of this search page,
inlcuding radio buttons, text input, and submit button.



2. Open your Nvu HTML editor.



3. Open a new empty HTML file.



4. Paste the search box into this new file.





5. Use Nvu to add a Form to this search box. Do not hand code the HTML. Just fill the blank in the Form dialog.

6. In the form dialog, set Action="http://google.com/search" and name of Form as "f" and method as "get"
(See Hint if it does not work.)




輸入"123"搜尋

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7. Run your HTML by Firefox. What do you get?



8. Set method as "post"



9. Run your HTML by Firefox. What do you get?