---
title: Creating forms
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/forms/composing-forms.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/forms/using-smart-fields-in-forms.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/forms/localizing-form-fields.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can create new forms via the **Forms** application:

1. Open the **Forms**application.
2. Click **New form**.
3. Enter the name of the form.
4. Click **Save**.

You have created a new form. Now you can specify its properties or continue designing the form on the [Form builder tab](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/forms/composing-forms.md).

## Form properties

After you create a form or when editing an existing form, you can define the following properties on the form's **General** tab:

| **Form display name**           | Name of the form used in the administration interface.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Form code name**              | Name that serves as an identifier for the form. For example, in code.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Table name**                  | Name of the database table where this form's records are stored.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Class name**                  | A globally unique identifier of the form.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **After the form is submitted** | Sets the action that occurs when a user submits a new form record:<br>**Display text** – the text message specified here is displayed.<br>**Redirect to URL** – the client browser is redirected to the given URL.<br>**Reload form** – the form is displayed again without any filled in data. |
| **Submit button text**          | Sets the caption of the button used to submit the form.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Submit button image**         | URL of an image that can be used instead of the submit button. If blank, a button with the text defined in the property above is displayed.                                                                                                                                                     |