How To Use "text" Input Fields
Q
How To Use "text" Input Fields? - XHTML 1.0 Tutorials - Understanding Forms and Input Fields
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A "text" input field is defined as <input type="text" .../>. A "test" input field can be used to create input field to allow viewers to enter text strings or numbers. There are other attributes you may need to use for a "text" input field:
- name="fieldName" - Specifies the name of this field.
- value="defaultValue" - Specifies a default value for this field.
- size="number" - Specifies the size of the input box in number of characters.
- maxlength="number" - Specifies the maximum length of the input data.
Here is a tutorial example with two text input fields:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Text Input Fields</title>
</head>
<body>
<h4>Online Survey</h4>
<form action="/survey.php">
<p style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 8px;">
Your name: <input type="text" name="name"
value="Joe Miller"/><br/>
Your email: <input type="text" name="email"
value="joe@miller.com" size="32" maxlength="60"/><br/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
If you save the above document as text_input.html, and view it with
Internet Explorer, you will see a form with two text input fields of
different sizes as shown below:
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