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HTML

Posted by Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

html form build

After finishing html forms with Nick Pettit, I've noticed some forms can be made with <tables>. I like how how Nick did it. Is there a right or wrong way...or just preference on building forms.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Mark,

I fixed your missing html. Whenever you want short pieces of code inline you can wrap it with single backticks. This is usually the key above the tab key.

3 Answers

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

You can build forms with tables, but as Nick said in those videos its better to leave tables for information and data display.

Sticking to the form fields for forms also makes your code easier for others to see what is going on, and you'll benefit when some new feature is added to the form html in the future and not have to change all your tables to forms to take advantage of these.

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

<tables> are great for holding data and text in a structured manner. Though you would normally want to use them to primarily display text, they are perfectly fine to be used for holding pictures, form elements such as <input>, and much more. What you shouldn't do is to have your website being the "skeleton" of your websites' structure - that would be a bad practice.

Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points
Mark Cabangon
Mark Cabangon
3,940 Points

Thanks for the reply guys. That puts it into perspective. I do remember Nick pointing out tables for data, especially when my form has a lot of input fields.

Mark C