Forms allow you to collect information from users. Common uses for forms include surveys, order forms, and search interfaces.
Forms require two components: HTML source code describing the form, and either a server-side application or client-side script to process the information that users enter in the form fields created by the HTML.
You can use Dreamweaver to create forms, to add objects to them, and (by using behaviors) to validate information entered by the user. You must use a text editor to write a script or application to process the form data. (Perl is the most common scripting language for form processing; C, Java, and even JavaScript are other options.)
Your Dreamweaver forms can include standard objects such as text fields, buttons, image fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, list/menus, file fields, and hidden fields. Dreamweaver also supports input types that it doesn't recognize by displaying generic field properties in the Property inspector. See Generic field properties.