Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

TYPE — NN all IE all HTML all

Synopsis

TYPE=”elementType"

Required

Advises the browser how to render the INPUT element (or even whether the element should be rendered at all). Possible choices are as follows:

Type	Description
button	A clickable button whose action must be scripted. Its label is assigned by the VALUE attribute. If you want to use HTML to format the label of a button, use the BUTTON element instead.
checkbox	A free-standing checkbox that provides two states (active and inactive). Its label is created by HTML text before or after the INPUT element tag. The VALUE attribute value is submitted with a form, so you can have multiple checkboxes with the same name but different values if the server CGI script wants its data that way.
file	A button and field that lets the user select a local file for eventual uploading to the server. A click of the button generates a File dialog, and the name (or pathname) of the selected file appears in the field. The server must have a CGI script running to accept the incoming file at submission time.
hidden	An invisible field often used to carry over database or state data from submission to submission without bothering the user with its content (or having to store the temporary data on the server). The name/value pair is submitted with the form.
image	A graphical button whose sole action is to submit the form. The coordinate points x,y of the click on the image are submitted as two name/value pairs: inputName.x=n; inputName.y=m ...