1. What is an online form?
Online forms are very common in today's websites. Whether it is a corporate website or a variety of promotional websites, or an advertisement like Toutiao, you need to submit a form if you are interested in a product after you click it.
The content of this form contains basic information such as ordering contact person, telephone address, etc. The specific content can also be added and adjusted according to the customer's website and the nature of the customer's product.
Through the online form function, users can submit relevant information to the company if they are interested while browsing the website.
The form is essentially composed of two parts: one is the web page file that stores the form controls; the other is the processing program for processing form submission data, which runs on the server.
When making and designing a website, this function is often used for user registration, online services, and online surveys. The content of the form is located between the tags in the HTML code of the website.
2. What role does the online form play in the website?
For users, a form is an interface for data entry and submission; for a website, a form is a way to obtain user information.
Online forms in Internet marketing, like emails, belong to an online service function.
Its function is similar to the mailbox, but users no longer need to use their own e-mail to send information, but only use the form on the web page to fill in the consultation content and submit it to the website to achieve the same effect.
From a functional point of view, the two commonly used online contact methods, online form and e-mail, can transmit user information, but there is a difference in effect.
The online form can set some formatted content in advance, such as customer name, company, address, question category, etc. The information submitted through the online form is easier to process than ordinary e-mails.
The purpose of creating forms in the process of building a website is to collect information.
A form is a collection of fields used to collect information about site visitors. The information entered in the form will be submitted to the server, and the server's relevant application will process the submitted information.
In addition, forms are a major external form of dynamic web pages, and forms can be used to collect information from viewers or implement search functions.
3. How to create an online form in the website?
The complete realization of the form function requires the design of two aspects: one is the HTML source code used to describe the form object; the other is the client-side script, or the server-side program for processing the information filled in.
To create a form, you need to add the code required for the form to the website code tag, which is mainly composed of three basic components:
Form tag: Contains the URL of the CGI program used to process the form data and the method for submitting the data to the server.
Form field: contains text box, password box, hidden field, multi-line text box, check box, single selection box, drop-down selection box, file upload box, etc.
Form buttons: including submit buttons, reset buttons and general buttons; CGI scripts used to transfer data to the server or cancel input. You can also use form buttons to control other processing tasks that have defined processing scripts.
But writing code is only suitable for some simple forms, if you want to create some complex forms, you need to use other tools.
You can edit and manage forms directly through the background of the LTD marketing SaaS official micro center, as shown in the figure:
Click on the website overview-form management column, and click "Enter Management";
You can create two types of general information collection forms and interactive complex forms in the form management bar;
After clicking to create the form, follow the prompts to enter the information that needs to be filled in;
Finally, you can see the edited form in the form list.