The <input> Tag
Use the <input> tag
to define any one of a number of common form elements, including text
fields, multiple-choice lists, clickable images, and submission
buttons. Although there are many attributes for this tag, only the
type and name attributes are
required for each element (only type for a
submission button). Each type of input element uses only a subset of
the allowed attributes. Additional <input>
attributes may be required based on the specified form element.
You select the type of element to include in the form with the
<input> tag’s required
type attribute and name the field (used during the
form-submission process to the server) with the
name attribute.
The most
useful (as well as the most common) form-input element is the
text-entry field. A text-entry field appears in the browser window as
an empty box on one line and accepts a single line of user input that
becomes the value of the element when the user submits the form to
the server. To create a text entry field inside a form in your HTML
document, set the type of the
<input> form element to
text. You must include a name
attribute as well.
The size and
maxlength attributes allow you to dictate the
width, in characters, of the text-input display box and how many
total characters to accept from the user, respectively. The default
value for size is dependent on the browser; the
default value for maxlength is unlimited.
A text-entry field is usually blank until the user types something into it. You may, ...
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