How to Create a Questionnaire in HTML
How to Create a Questionnaire in HTML
Questionnaires are a great way of collecting data and getting feedback from your website visitors. You don’t have to use a template, software or online survey creators to have one. You can simply create it in HTML code and style it with CSS to match your current Website Design. This article will introduce the most common question types which will allow you a great flexibility when designing your questionnaire.
Steps

Create a basic HTML file in Notepad. Open Notepad to create a fresh web page and write the following code:

Save it as HTML file and open in your browser. The file is blank at the moment, but you can see that its title is Questionnaire.

Insert the

tags. HTML form tags are used to send the data to server. All our questions will be enclosed inside the tags.

Insert properties for tag. There are 3 main attributes we will use for the form tag: Action - allows you to tell the form where to go once submitted (usually the file name of a script which will read and process the form data which has been submitted). Name - it's usually a good idea to give your forms a name, this is used to uniquely identify your form on a given page. Method - the value of this should be POST This tells the form how to send the data once submitted.

Create a Text Field. In this example it will be First Name Last Name box. Add the following code: We have used an element here. It is used to collect user information. There are few types of elements - text field, check box, password, radio button, submit button, which will be used further down in this example. 'br' tag creates a line break on your webpage, since HTML by itself doesn't recognize white space This code will produce:

Create radio buttons. They allow the user to choose only one option. This code will produce:

Create check box. Unlike the radio buttons, they allow to select more than one option. This code will produce:

Create a drop-down selection list. This type allows visitors to pick option from the list. We have done use by adding

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