How to add a form action button to your HTML form
A form action button is a button element that is used to submit a form to a server. It triggers the form submission when clicked, and sends the form data to the server for processing. It’s the “submit” button However, the button that submits the form is often called a “submit” button and is created using a <button> tag with type="submit" <button type="submit">Submit</button> The button can be styled using CSS. For example, if you are using Bootstrap framework,
How to Handle a Form without an Action or Method Attribute
It’s not uncommon to come across form code that doesn’t have an action or method attribute visible in the HTML. Here’s an example: <form id="subscription"> ... <button type="submit" >Submit</button> </form> Surprisingly, the form can still be submitted, and you will receive a message to that effect. So, how does this work? Handling forms using JavaScript The trick is to use JavaScript to capture the form submission event. The JavaScript code collects the form data and sends it to the server, displaying an appropriate message to the user.
How to setup HTML form action attribute with query parameters
What if you set query parameters in the action attribute of an HTML form? Let us find out. For example: <form action="https://show.ratufa.io?ref=contact&type=query" method="post"> ... ... </form> Here we have two query parameters in the action attribute of the form. Let us try doing it: See the Pen HTML form action with parameters on CodePen. If we try entering some values and submitting the form above, you will see that the server side does receive the query parameters ref and type.