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Creating Forms and HTML

CGI contains a huge number of methods used to create HTML---one method per tag. In order to enable these methods, you must create a CGI object by calling CGI.new, passing in the required level of HTML. For these examples, we'll use ``html3''.

To make tag nesting easier, these methods take their content as code blocks. The code blocks should return a String, which will be used as the content for the tag. For this example, we've added some gratuitous newlines to make the output fit on the page.

require "cgi"
cgi = CGI.new("html3")  # add HTML generation methods
cgi.out{
  cgi.html{
    cgi.head{ "\n"+cgi.title{"This Is a Test"} } +
    cgi.body{ "\n"+
      cgi.form{"\n"+
        cgi.hr +
        cgi.h1 { "A Form: " } + "\n"+
        cgi.textarea("get_text") +"\n"+
        cgi.br +
        cgi.submit
      }
    }
  }
}
produces:
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 302

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>This Is a Test</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <FORM METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> <HR><H1>A Form: </H1> <TEXTAREA NAME="get_text" ROWS="10" COLS="70"></TEXTAREA> <BR><INPUT TYPE="submit"></FORM></BODY></HTML>

This code will produce an HTML form titled ``This Is a Test,'' followed by a horizontal rule, a level-one header, a test input area, and finally a submit button. When the submit comes back, you'll have a CGI parameter named ``get_text'' containing the text the user entered.
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