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E. ScioreUnderstanding Oracle APEX 20 Application Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6165-1_5

5. Items and Buttons

Edward Sciore1 
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Newton Center, MA, USA
 

This book has so far focused on how an application can display information to users. In this chapter and the next, you will examine the components that allow users to send information back to the application. These components, which are items and buttons, are known as form controls because they typically appear in web forms.

APEX supports many types of items, which look and behave quite differently from each other. However, they all can be understood as variations of a few basic concepts. The main purpose of this chapter is to explore these concepts and examine ...

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