HtmlForm Control

Definition and Usage

The HtmlForm control is used to control a <form> element. In HTML, the <form> element is used to create a form.

Note: All HTML server controls must be within the HtmlForm control!

Note: You can only have one HtmlForm control on a single page!

Properties

Property	Description
Action	A URL that defines where to send the data when the form is submitted. Note: This attribute is always set to the URL of the page itself!
EncType	The mime type used to encode the content of the form
id	A unique id for the control
Method	How the form posts data to the server. Legal values are: "post" and "get". Default is "post"
Name	The name of the form
runat	Specifies that the control is a server control. Must be set to "server"
Target	The target window to load the URL

Example 1

In the following example we declare an HtmlForm control in an .aspx file. Then we modify the method and target of the HtmlForm control in an event handler (an event handler is a subroutine that executes code for a given event). The Page_Load event is one of many events that ASP.NET understands:

<script runat="server">
  Sub Page_Load(Sender As Object,E As EventArgs)
    f1.Method="get"
    f1.Target="_blank"
  End Sub
</script>

<html>
<body>
<form id="f1" runat="server">
<input type="text" value="Donald Duck" runat="server"/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" runat="server"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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