Chapter 3. XForms User Interface Controls

User interface widgets collect user input and are responsible for providing a pleasant end-user experience when interacting with an application. The presentation and interaction exhibited by such widgets determines the look and feel of the user interface. With markup languages such as XForms, such user interface widgets are created by special markup constructs called, in this book, user interface controls. We begin our technical overview of XForms with a tour of the available user interface controls. Each such control adds a specific type of functionality and will be introduced alongside examples that motivate its use.

XForms user interface controls have been designed to be familiar to HTML authors and ...

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