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Forms are a part of everyday life. When we use a physical form in real life, we write down information and give it to someone to process. Think of the times you’ve had to fill out information for various applications like a job, or a bank account, or dropped off a completed suggestion card — each instance is a form!

Just like a physical form, an HTML <form> element is responsible for collecting information to send somewhere else. Every time we browse the internet we come into contact with many forms and we might not even realize it. There’s a good chance that if you’re typing into a text field or providing an input, the field that you’re typing into is part of a <form>!

In this lesson, we’ll go over the structure and syntax of a <form> and the many elements that populate it.

Instructions

Look over the image, can you think of any other forms you’ve interacted with? Go to the next exercise when you’re ready.

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