HTML: Learn HTML With Ultimate Zero to Hero Programming Crash Course for Beginners (HTML, Learn HTML, Web Design, HTML and CSS, Programming Lanugages) by Paul Madoff

Author:Paul Madoff [Madoff, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zero to Hero
Published: 2015-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

The text input allows users to type in text, and once the form is submitted, the data will be sent to the processing script. All most all of the input options available are don using the same basic tag form:

<input>

When combined with different attributes, a particular type of form input can be displayed. For the standard text box, for example, the following code is used:

<input type="text">

Now, this isn’t done yet as you need to use another important attribute to make the textbox work – Name. This attribute obviously allows you to provide a name for the textbox which you can later refer the data to. The name must not have any special characters or spaces. It is also important to note that each form item must bear a unique name. Here is the syntax to use for the name attribute:

<input type="text" name="username">

In the above example, the textbox is named “username.” Like the form tag and other HTML form tags, Name is also an invisible tag. It doesn’t have any practical use, except when you begin processing forms. When submitting forms using GET, remember that the name of the input will show up in the page’s URL. While it will likewise be sent with the data/information when using POST, it is invisible. For instance:

login.php?username=jim

Value is another attribute that you can use for the textbox which will allow you to set a default or initial value for the textbox that the user, in turn, can change. An example would be a textbox that is intended to collect an email address. If you want to set the textbox’s initial value to [email protected], write a code similar to the one below:

<input type="text" name="email" value="[email protected]">

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