Help with HTML - Post ID 197405

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I am looking to be able to do the following, and I'm unsure if I can use this software, or if there is a better free software out there that'd help me. Since my knowledge of anything but basic HTML is pretty much non-existent.

On the Proboards forums I used to have some codes, that others wrote, in Javascript I think. But they were forms for a forum board, that made it come out like a questionnaire. So all you do is input the answers you want, and it formats them and makes the forum post, so it's very uniform.

I am working on creating a fantasy world, and one of the things I wanted was a way to create these forms, for my personal use, to quickly create characters, cities, or other things, where all I have to do is plug in the information and get very nicely detailed HTML pages for them.

It would be something like this, for a character:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Subrace:
Job:
Appearance:
History:

That's a pretty bare-bones version, but the form would have fields for each of those. And so all I'd have to do is type in the information:

Name: John Smith
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Subrace: None
Job: Explorer
Appearance: 5' 7", brown hair, blue eyes
History: He has been a sailor for the past 5 years.

And when I click the button at the bottom of the form, the HTML page is generated, with stuff to have the field names above maybe in different colors, with bold or italic formatting, and featuring my answers.

Can anyone help me figure out what I would need to do this? It is more in the nature of a time saver, but also so I can easily go back later and just open an HTML file and see the information I put down for them. Instead of using cluttered text files packed with notes, and no real organization.
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This is actually not my field, so others may have to correct me. But if you went for the CC Web form builder to build the actual form, and then hosted it on the S-drive, then maybe.

But what I am certain about is, that you could create the form with the Form builder, post it to a database, and then use some php to pull it out to be shown on a web page.
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Yup, form builder and mysql then php to display the results.:)
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This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com

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