Form (document)

A form is a document which contains blank spaces (also named fields or placeholders) in which one can write or select an option.

Before being filled out, each copy of a form is usually identical, except, possibly, for a serial number.

A form allows an organisation to collect a uniform set of data from many parties in a consistent manner.

Forms have existed for a significant amount of time, with historians of law having discovered preprinted legal forms from the early 19th century that greatly simplified the task of drafting complaints and various other legal pleadings.

Placeholders, or fields, are boxes or spaces where one can write or type in order to fill out the form.