<INPUT ...>

Usage Recommendation
use it

TYPE: what type of field NAME: name of this form field VALUE: initial or only value of this field SIZE: how wide the text field should be MAXLENGTH: maximum number of characters CHECKED: check this checkbox or radio button BORDER: border around image SRC: URL of image ALT: text to show if you don't show the picture LOWSRC: a version of the picture that isn't such a big file WIDTH: width of image HEIGHT: height of image ALIGN: how text should flow around the picture VSPACE: vertical distance between the picture and the text

HSPACE: horizontal distance between the picture and the text READONLY: the value of this field cannot be changed DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field ACCESSKEY TABINDEX: tab order LANGUAGE: scripting language to use onClick: when the user clicks here onChange: when this field is changed onFocus: when this field gets the focus onBlur: when this field loses the focus onKeyPress: script to run when a key is pressed onKeyUp: script for when a key goes up while the field has the focus onKeyDown: script for when a key goes down while the field has the focus AUTOCOMPLETE: If the browser should use autocompletion for the field

<INPUT ...> creates the data entry fields on an HTML form. (Well, it creates most types of fields, <TEXTAREA ...> and <SELECT ...> also create some, as does the new <BUTTON ...> tag.) The TYPE attribute establishes what type of field the input is creating. The other <INPUT ...> attributes affect different types of inputs different ways (or not at all). So let's jump straight into the TYPE attribute and look at the different types of input fields.