Making text boxes save the data to hard drive (offline purposes completely)

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)

And what would be ideal is to have one save button per page to use when you are done typing in all the information in the text boxes to save them in the html page.

Can someone help?

You might try this question at http://www.vbforums/com

The link didn't work and. . .

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?

Try this link: http://www.vbforums.com (my typo on the previous post)

They have an HTML section as well.

C++ can do everything Visual Basic can and lots more. The drawback is that it will take a lot longer to learn and to build up your code library. Visual Basic can do what you want, and it is faster to learn and to program in.

So can both of them be used for online purposes in place of java? CGI? PHP?