Forms Forms allow HTML documents to become interactive.
Users can input information which can be manipulated locally or sent to a server.
In particular, forms act as the front-ends to CGI scripts and Javascript. As such, before one can begin to use CGI, it is useful to get a handle on Web forms. This page briefly introduces the basics of Web forms. The Form Tag As with all HTML coding, forms are created using tags. This action attribute specifies what the form should do with the data when it is submitted.