Why does my action attribute not direct to other page?

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Hi there,

I practice some coding about form and input attribute, but action attribute with form tag keep submit stay on the same page.

I copied and pasted same code from W3C, which works on their web, but doesn’t work on my browser. I use safari and chrome.

Here is my coding.

Many thanks

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<form action="/action_page.php" target="_blank" method="get">
        <label for="username">Username:</label>
        <input type="text" id="username" name="username" value="" maxlength="10" required> <br>
        <!-- text attribute input text  -->
        Your Name: <input type="text" name="name" required> <br>
        <br>
        <label for="password">Password</label>
        <input type="password" id="password" name="pwd" required> <br>
        <!-- password attribute hides password -->
        Gender: Male<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male"> Female<input type="radio" name="gender" value="female"> Not to tell <input type="radio" name="gender" value="0" checked><br>
        <!-- radio is single choice. Single choice sections must all under same name attribute-->
        Hobby: Swimming <input type="checkbox" name="hobby" value="swimming" checked> Basketball <input type="checkbox" name="hobby" id=""> <br>
        <!-- checkbox is multiple choices  -->
        <!-- Name is used to differ different elements -->
        <input type="submit" value="FREE SIGN UP">
        <!-- Button function need to bw combine with JS -->
        <input type="button" value="get SMS code"> <br>
        
    </form>
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To use this you need to be running a PHP-enabled web server on your computer and have a file named action_page.php in the server root that will process the data from your form.

I’m guessing they were just showing you an example of how you would call a script using the action attribute but didn’t actually intend for you to use it.

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Thanks bbsmooth.

I hit submit and there is nothing happening. If I want get something back from web, I need a PHP-enabled web server, even if returning message is can not found the page or server. Is this understanding correct?

Thanks

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Correct, the URL you put in the action attribute has to be a functioning URL that can process the data from your form.