Example in Action: How to Structure a Web Form

When building a form, you want to make sure you are using a basic structure that still covers all you need to cover. Building your forms with dedicated form elements and attributes will help ensure your form is usable and accessible.

How to structure a web form

With the basics out of the way, we'll now look in more detail at the elements used to provide structure and meaning to the different parts of a form.

Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy, and a basic understanding of HTML.
Objective: To understand how to structure HTML forms and give them semantics so they are usable and accessible.


The flexibility of forms makes them one of the most complex structures in HTML; you can build any kind of basic form using dedicated form elements and attributes. Using the correct structure when building an HTML form will help ensure that the form is both usable and accessible.

Source: Mozilla, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/How_to_structure_a_web_form
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