When 8850 Form Submitting 2016-2023

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Hey YouTube how's it going it's Quinton here and welcome back to tutorial number 29 and in this video I just want to speak to you guys about submitting a form okay so in the previous tutorial I did say that we were going to start some form validation but I decided before we move on to that you guys should probably just understand fully what submitting form means and how we're going to use that in JavaScript okay so let's just start off by putting a form onto our web page so starting form and ending form okay and there are two attributes that are actually compulsory to have on our form we need to have them every time and the first one is the action which is basically where do I want to send the information I get from this form where do I want to send it to okay and this is going to be like another page on our website okay preferably something that's written with some server-side code okay so in other words it can't be a dot HTML file okay like it can't be another page that HTML because okay let's say another page was another page on our website if it was a dot HTML file it wouldn't be able to do anything with the values that we sent to it okay so we'd actually you know it would be pointless but if it was something like a dot PHP file then we'd be able to actually read the data that we sent to it and actually do stuff with the data save it in a database or something like that whatever okay so that's what the action does okay then we've got another attribute called the method and the method is basically...