Forms
Form Elements
Text Field
Remember: A text field
allows the user to enter a small amount of text.
Try It: Add a form with a text field into your page. Try using the size attribute and typing into the field.
Another common form element is the
text field, which allows the user to
enter a short amount of text. It is an Try It: Add a form with a text field into your page. Try using the size attribute and typing into the field.
<input> tag
with a
type of
"text". A helpful attribute
for this text fields is the
size attribute, which allows you to set
the number of
characters that are displayed in the text field, that is, how wide it
is. For example, for a text field in which the user is entering a phone
number, you may want to limit the size to
12 (10 numbers and 2 dashes).
Text Field Example
is displayed as:
<form>
Phone Number: <input
type="text"
size="12">
</form>
Now you have all the tools to create a working form! You'll make a form that really works for the asynchronous chat activity.
End of Tutorial
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