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On the World Wide Web, facility for accepting structured user input and inserting it into a program such as a database. Most newer graphical Web browsers can handle forms, as can the older, text-based browser Lynx. Forms are needed to manage database queries at sites such as AltaVista, and to fill out registration forms for those sites that require them.

Web page designers implement forms by using a special set of hypertext markup language (HTML) tags and attaching a script, which parses the data and feeds it to the program specified in a form the program can use. The results, such as a user name and password or a list of matches, are sent back to the user.
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The forms which they assume are numerous, and if taken literally, inconsistent with one another.
Meno by Plato View in context
Few phenomena gave me more delight than to observe the forms which thawing sand and clay assume in flowing down the sides of a deep cut on the railroad through which I passed on my way to the village, a phenomenon not very common on so large a scale, though the number of freshly exposed banks of the right material must have been greatly multiplied since railroads were invented.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
And on his own account he was anxious to enjoy to the utmost all Russian forms of amusement.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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