Florida National Parks Hotel Reservation Form

Inserting a Jump Menu

A jump menu is a pop-up menu that links to other pages, files or sites. In this part of the exercise you will create a jump menu to link to other pages.

1. Under Number of Nights type in Links. Tab over to the next cell and insert a Jump Menu from the Forms tab bar. This will open the Jump Menu dialogue box. Type in Choose One in the text box. Click on the + button and type in Biscayne National Park in the text box as the second menu item. Press the tab key to move to the Go to URL text box and type in http://www.nps.gov/bisc/index.htm. Click on the + button to add the next link. Type in Dry Tortugas National Park with http://www.nps.gov/dryto/index.htm as the URL. Repeat this for Everglades National Park with http://www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm as the URL. Click OK and then save th

Adding a TextArea Text Field
Move to the cell just below Links and type in Comments. Tab to the next cell and insert a Textarea button from the Forms tab and give it a name of comments. Make the Char Width 50, the Num Lines 4 and the initial value Please add your comments. Save your web page.

Form Buttons
In the first semester you learned about the Submit and Reset buttons that are used with forms. The submit button sends the form data to the server to be processed. The reset button clears all data from the form. Another button that can be used with forms is the Command button. This button can run a script that might calculate the total cost of a hotel room for a week or the total cost of a purchase. Command buttons require the addition of additional coding in the code view.

1. Insert a Submit button in the cell just below Comments. Move to the next cell and insert a Reset button. Give each the appropriate action and name.

2. Show your completed form to your instructor for teacher check.

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