Forms
Form Elements
Remember: The
Form elements provide a way for the user to enter information into a
form. There are several kinds of elements, such as checkboxes, text
fields, text areas, and more. Many of these are displayed with the
<input> tag requires
the type and
name attributes.
<input> tag. The <input> tag is
a stand-alone tag that represents one form element. It has many
attributes but the two most important are
type and
name. The type
attribute tells the browser what kind of form element to display. The
name attribute is used by the page that receives the form information
(the action URL) to identify the element.
Submit Button
Remember: The user clicks the
submit button to send the form to the action
URL.
One of the most common form elements is the
submit button, which a user
clicks to submit a form or cause some other action. It is an
<input> tag with a type
of "submit". The
submit button has another important attribute called
value which tells
the browser the text to put onto the submit button.
Submit Button Example
is displayed as:
<form>
<input
type="submit"
value="Send">
</form>