title:The <form> element

In the[chapter on loading](page-data), we saw how to get data from the server to the browser. Sometimes you need to send data in the opposite direction, and that's where`<form>` — the web platform's way of submitting data — comes in.

In the chapter on[loading data](page-data), we saw how to get data from the server to the browser. Sometimes you need to send data in the opposite direction, and that's where`<form>` — the web platform's way of submitting data — comes in.

Let's build a todo app. We've already got an in-memory database set up in`src/lib/server/database.js`, and our`load` function in`src/routes/+page.server.js` uses the[`cookies`](https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/load#cookies) API so that we can have a per-user todo list, but we need to add a`<form>` to create new todos: