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<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Multiple HTML Forms</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="pageContent">
        <table>
        <tr>
        <td valign="top"> 
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <div>
            <h2>Any collection of controls here</h2>
            <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
            <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
            <h3>This represents an ordinary ASP.NET page</h3>
        </div>
        </form>
        
        </td>
        <td valign="top" align="right" > 
            <form method="post" action="search.aspx">
                <h3>Search Box</h3>
                <table>
                <tr >
                    <td>Keyword</td>
                    <td><input type="text" id="Keyword" name="Keyword" /></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td colspan="2">
                    <input type="submit" id="StartSearch" value="Search" />
                    </td>
                </tr>
                </table>
            </form>
        </td>
        </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
File: NextPage.aspx

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="NextPage.aspx.cs" 
    Inherits="NextPage" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Search Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div id="pageContent">
    <h1>Searching for...  
        <asp:Label ID="KeywordBeingUsed" runat="server" ForeColor="blue"></asp:Label></h1>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

File: NextPage.aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;


public partial class NextPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    string textToSearch = Request.Form["Keyword"].ToString();
    KeywordBeingUsed.Text = textToSearch;
    }
}








4.5.Form
4.5.1.form default focus
4.5.2.Use HTML form to layout asp.net controls (VB.net)
4.5.3.Submitting Form Data
4.5.4.Specifying a Default Button
4.5.5.A survey form (C#)
4.5.6.Using validation controls to fill a form.
4.5.7.one server-side form tag and multiple client HTML form elements
4.5.8.Multiple server forms can be employed as long as only one is rendered at a time