Question

Could someone explain what method or how a form thats using this code works?

<form method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data' target='gform_ajax_frame_1' id='gform_1' 
 action='/contact-us/#gf_1'>
</form>

I’m trying to learn more about forms, and right now I’m trying to build a multipart form like one of my friends did.

I’m used to forms saying action="contact.php" but this one says action="/contact_us/#gf_1". What does it mean?

Answer 1

In forms

Action refers

to Where to send the form-data when the form is submitted

and methods refers to

The method attribute specifies how to send form-data (the form-data is sent to the page specified in the action attribute).

The form-data can be sent as URL variables (with method=”get”) or as HTTP post transaction (with method=”post”).

Notes on GET:

Appends form-data into the URL in name/value pairs The length of a URL
is limited (about 3000 characters) Never use GET to send sensitive
data! (will be visible in the URL) Useful for form submissions where a
user want to bookmark the result GET is better for non-secure data,
like query strings in Google

Notes on POST:

Appends form-data inside the body of the HTTP request (data is not
shown is in URL) Has no size limitations Form submissions with POST
cannot be bookmarked

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_action.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_method.asp