# Bootstrap Forms - Help please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855 "2019-05-22T13:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Desire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Desire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Desire)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855/1 "2019-05-22T13:04:22Z")

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Hi All,

Im looking for some help on how forms work within bootstrap… Im currently playing about with this theme… [https://startbootstrap.com/previews/grayscale/](https://startbootstrap.com/previews/grayscale/)

I only know very basic html/css and I cant see how the form works… When you type in your email and press submit where does the information go/get stored?

I’m currently assuming it doesn’t go anywhere and nothing happens as i cant see no PHP files within the theme so im guessing the form is just there for visual purpose.

so how do i get it to work and save the information in… a) a database or b) email the information to a specific person…?

Thank you for any help  
Spencer

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**Author:** ![REB\_412](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/reb_412/32/9233_2.png) [@REB\_412](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REB_412)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855/2 "2019-05-22T13:19:54Z")

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You are correct in that the form on the page that you reference doesn’t do anything. I suggest that you look at the following page for a quick review of working with forms: [https://www.w3schools.com/html/html\_forms.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp).

Basically, there is an “action” attribute on the form which sends the data to a back end program on your server to process this data. That program can put the information into a database or email it.

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**Author:** ![Desire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Desire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Desire)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855/3 "2019-05-22T15:41:44Z")

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thank you, that helped a-lot.  
got it up and running now. 🙂

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**Author:** ![REB\_412](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/reb_412/32/9233_2.png) [@REB\_412](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REB_412)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bootstrap-forms-help-please/639855/4 "2019-05-22T23:09:22Z")

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Glad to hear that.