Forms Flashcards
Forms
HTML provides a number of elements which can be used together to create forms which the user can fill out and submit to the Web site or application. There’s a great deal of further information about this available in the HTML forms guide.
button
The HTML element represents a clickable button, used to submit forms or anywhere in a document for accessible, standard button functionality.
datalist
The HTML element contains a set of option elements that represent the permissible or recommended options available to choose from within other controls.
fieldset
The HTML element is used to group several controls as well as labels (label) within a web form.
form
The HTML element represents a document section containing interactive controls for submitting information.
input
The HTML element is used to create interactive controls for web-based forms in order to accept data from the user; a wide variety of types of input data and control widgets are available, depending on the device and user agent. The element is one of the most powerful and complex in all of HTML due to the sheer number of combinations of input types and attributes.
label
The HTML element represents a caption for an item in a user interface.
legend
The HTML element represents a caption for the content of its parent fieldset.
meter
The HTML element represents either a scalar value within a known range or a fractional value.
optgroup
The HTML element creates a grouping of options within a select element.
option
The HTML element is used to define an item contained in a select, an optgroup, or a datalist element. As such, can represent menu items in popups and other lists of items in an HTML document.
output
The HTML element is a container element into which a site or app can inject the results of a calculation or the outcome of a user action.
progress
The HTML element displays an indicator showing the completion progress of a task, typically displayed as a progress bar.
select
The HTML element represents a control that provides a menu of options:
textarea
The HTML element represents a multi-line plain-text editing control, useful when you want to allow users to enter a sizeable amount of free-form text, for example a comment on a review or feedback form.