FrontPage Forms

Creating a Form

1.  Pull down on the Insert menu, choose "Form Field", then "One-Line Text Box".  You'll see the text box along with TWO buttons (Submit, Reset):

2.  Use the arrow keys to position the cursor BEFORE the one-line text box, but still within the dotted lines of the form.  Type a label (ex:  First Name)

3.  Use the arrow keys to position the cursor AFTER the one-line text box (but before the Submit button).  Press the Enter key several times.

4. Continue adding one-line text boxes, radio buttons, and checkboxes as desired.   Notes:

• Each set of radio buttons has a GROUP name -- within the  radio buttons with the same group name, only ONE button may be selected by the user.
• With checkboxes, more than one checkbox can be "checked" by the user.

Changing Properties of the Form Fields

• Right-click on one of the form elements (ex:  one-line text box) and choose "Form Field Properties".  In the "Text Box Properties" window, enter a name that is more descriptive than T1 -- example:  txtFirstName.

• Continue setting properties of the form fields.  Here's an example of some suggested  Radio Button Property settings -- notice that the GROUP name for both is radioState, but the VALUE is changed for each radio button:

 

Changing Properties of the Form Itself

• Right-click on the form itself, and chose Form Properties.  Enter the e-mail address for yourself:

• Click on the "Options" button (shown in the middle of the screen above).   Use the suggestions for the E-mail Results tab and the Saved Fields tab as shown below:

• Save the entire web page and test it using the Netscape browser.