I would like to make a web page with text boxes (kind of like how this site has this where I am typing). But with many small ones. Is is a form I would like to make to replace paper.

What I am having touble with is not making the text boxes but how to place a button beside each one to pop up a box (not like this one, maybe a page just about the same size as the box.)

I'm not sure you know what I mean. Let me try to explain it better.

Imagine this: I have a page with small text boxes on it that can scroll. What I really want is a way to write in the text boxes and have it save the information there. Which would mean that it would have to save it to the hard drive somehow.

How can I do that? (note: this is for offline purposes)

Your best bet is to use Java, but you have to know it first, do you?

java?! well, you could use it, but then you wouldn't need a browser anymore (not necessarily)

Looks like you're talking about and in HTML. These are usually elements, which have to be sent to a server, which would process them, and ocassionally store them somewhere.
I don't think that this is possible with a httpd running, which recieves the data. You could, however work with cookies and javascript, but, that is evil
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Now I am thinking that it would be better for me to learn visual basic or c++. Can either of those 2 do what I want? One more question:

Can c++ do everything that visual basic can + more?

I would like to have text boxes but right now I am thinking it would be easier and better for me to learn c++ or visual basic. What do you think.

I would like to make other things than this project. I don't want to lean java if I can learn something better instead.

Could I do the same using C++? What I mean is: use my web pages to make the forms as a front end and C++ to process the forms and save them to disk?

You CANT put images or links in a form text box, but you can in an iframe, just a quick note cause if you do you just get all the code...