What is the meaning of form action="/"?

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action of a form normally refers to the script which runs after submittting. I saw a code with form action="/" and I am unable to find to where it goes. Someone please explain me.

It sends the form data to the index page or the home page of that site where the form is. Here, [Try it yourself](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_input_type) — Anjan Baradwaj, Sep 26 '13 at 08:02

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:40

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It goes to the index of the base dir.

answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:40

Joran Den Houting

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No! It refers to the index page of the *base*dir! – urzeit Sep 26 '13 at 07:42
If someone did set the baseURL indeed. Changed my answer just for you, thanks for the addition :)( – Joran Den Houting Sep 26 '13 at 07:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:40

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It mean to index page of the site.

answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:40

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:41

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It sends the form to the index page of the site. (normally index.php, but often index.html, or main.html)

answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:41

Zack Newsham

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:54

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See it as an directory. The / just means that your application will search in the very first directory for an index.php file.

answered Sep 26 '13 at 07:54

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What is the meaning of form action="/"?

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