How to send data from a HTML on my computer to a Access database file on my computer?

My situation: I'm teaching myself JavaScript. I can create very basic web pages and right now I am practicing forms and form validation scripts. Right now, when I hit the submit button on these forms, the data doesn't go anywhere since the page is not connected to a web server. I just wanted to know if there was a way to write these HTML pages so that the data I submit through the forms would go to an Access database on my own computer. Can I do this with HTML/Javascript or does it require a different language. If you can provide a link to a tutorial, I would really appreciate it, but any answers are welcome.
Answer:

HTML and JavaScript are both languages that reside in the user's browser. What this means is that, the HTML and JavaScript code are executed on the user's browser. So, when you validate your form (using JavaScript), that is being done locally on your computer. But, when you 'submit' your form, it is being sent to the submitted page (will call it page X) in the server that is hosting the pages. the server processes the request that was submitted (HTML/JavaScript would not be able to execute here) and returns a response as as page X. The easiest option would be to sign up to a free web hosting www.000webhost.com would be a good oen. You would be able to use PHP (server scripting language), and you can use that to insert posted data into a database (mySQL). If you require it to be an Access DB, then I think that would not be suitable, and you could go with ASP.NET.

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