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Now, I did mention that there are special HTML elements,

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which you can use for building such a form and for fetching

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that user input.

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And of course, we're going to write code

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in a couple of seconds and we're going to

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explore those elements in code.

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But I want to give you an overview of the

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most important elements there right away.

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And the most important HTML element

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you will use all the time when fetching user input

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will be the 'input' element.

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And I guess the name makes a lot of sense,

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because this element is all about

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fetching user input, hence the name.

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And here, I also already added

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this 'type' attribute, because that will be

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extremely important to configure

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which kind of input we want to fetch.

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Do we want to fetch plain text?

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Do we want to fetch an email address?

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Do we want to fetch a phone number?

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You can configure different types of inputs

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with that 'type' attribute.

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Now, another very important form element

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is the 'text area' HTML element.

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That will be an element that allows us to fetch

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multiline text input.

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So where the 'input' element typically focuses on

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short input, single line input,

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the 'text area' field would be used if we, for example,

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want to fetch the comment text,

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or the feedback text a user provides to us.

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Another important HTML element,

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which we'll see in this course section,

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will be the 'select' HTML element,

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which we can use to build drop-downs to allow the user

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to choose a value from multiple available values.

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And then the last very important element

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will be the 'button' element.

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Where the first three elements are about the user

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entering or selecting some values,

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this button element is not about that,

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but about confirming those values.

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We need a button in basically any form so that the user is

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able to confirm that input and submit that form.

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Alternatively, what you will also see

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in this course section, we can also add

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reset buttons that will reset a form,

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maybe in addition to the submit buttons.

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But we are going to see all of that throughout

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this course section, and therefore let's now

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leave the theory and let's get our hands dirty,

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and let's start creating some forms.