| Tag |
Attributes |
Comments |
| <FORM>
.... </FORM> |
Creates a form area, can not be nested. Requires
the ACTION attribute be specified, other attributes optional. |
ACTION="...url..."
|
Indicates the CGI script to process the form input.
URL can be relative or absolute. To process as an email message include, mailto:
to make the ACTION a valid URL. |
METHOD="get/post"
|
Indicates the method with which the form input is
given to the script that processes the form. GET is default method. In an HTMaiL
form the method will always be POST. |
ENCTYPE="mime type/subtype"
|
Specifies the way the data will be
encoded (what MIME type used) before being transmitted. (MIME - multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions.) |
| <INPUT
NAME="zip" TYPE=text SIZE=4 MAXVALUE=10
VALUE="48502" > |
| <INPUT> |
A field of the form. There is no </INPUT> |
NAME="name"
|
The programmer defined label. Every INPUT must
have a name except the Submit and Reset buttons. |
TYPE=type
|
Type of form element. Possible values include: BUTTON - for general purpose buttons on a web page
CHECKBOX - an on/off switch
HIDDEN - not displayed on the screen, but can be passed on to
the CGI script that processes the form.
IMAGE - creates a clickable image, similar to an image map,
that behaves like a submit button.
PASSWORD - field is identical to a text field except the
characters typed by the user are displayed as bullets or asterisks.
RADIO - a radio button
RESET - makes a button that resets the default values of the
form
SUBMIT - a button to submit the form to the script that
processes it
TEXT - creates a single-line text field.
|
SIZE="size of text field"
|
Used only with the TEXT type, indicates the size of the text
field in characters. (default is 20) |
| MAXLENGTH="max #
chars" |
Used only with the TEXT type, indicates the maximum number of
characters this text field will accept. |
VALUE="default
value" |
The default value for the form element (optional). For
SUBMIT and RESET buttons indicates the label of the button. |
CHECKED
|
Used only with CHECKBOX or RADIO input. Indicates that
this element is selected by default. |
SRC="..url.. "
|
Used only with IMAGE type, indicates the path or URL to
the image file. |
| <TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=40 NAME="comments"
WRAP="HARD"> default text here </TEXTAREA> |
| <TEXTAREA> ... </TEXTAREA> |
Creates a free form scroll box in which the user may enter
data longer than would be practically input in a text input box. Note requires the
</TEXTAREA> tag. |
NAME
|
Specifies the name that will be sent to the CGI program. |
ROWS
|
Specifies the number of visible lines of text. If more
lines of text than can fit are entered, scrollbars will be added. |
COLS
|
Specifies the visible width of the text area, based on the
average width of characters in the font being used. |
WRAP
|
A nonstandard attribute, specifies what to do with lines that
are longer than the size specified by COLS. I is supported by Netscape in version
2.0 and later.
OFF disables word warp, and is the default.
HARD ( or physical) causes words to warp on screen and the
associated line breaks to be transmitted when the form is submitted.
SOFT ( or virtual) causes the words to warp on screen, but no
extra line breaks to be transmitted with the form is submitted.
|
<SELECT NAME="color"> <OPTION> red
<OPTION> green <OPTION> blue </SELECT> |
| <SELECT> .... </SELECT> |
Used to present a set of options to the user. The choices are
specified via OPTION entries embedded in the SELECT element. The terminating tag
</SELECT> ends the options list. |
NAME
|
Identifies the form element to the target CGI program, or
label on mailed data. |
SIZE
|
Gives the number of visible rows. |
MULTIPLE
|
Specifies that multiple entries can be selected
simultaneously. If multiple is omitted, only a single selection is permitted. |