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Accesskey: provides a single text key that will ring the associated element into focus
Action: points to the application that will process the data captured by the form
Button: creates a control that has no predefined function/just look good don't do anything
Checkbox: fast way to enter data
Checked and Selected: set a default value or values for a checkbox form
Columns: is a count of he number of characters across each line
Contents of the Form: indicates that the contained data define a form
Disable: causes the particular element to do nothing
Enctype: specify a different encoding format for the data sent from the form to the CGI script
Fieldset: defines a grouping of related form controls
File: sometimes users need to send a file back along with the form data
For: allows the <label> element to be associated with a particular input control
Hidden Data Fields or Hidden: Sometimes you will want to send a CGI script data that you don't want the user to be able to manipulate or even see
Image: users see a picture that they can click on
Input: creates an input element (control) within a form
Input Control: each type of object that collects data or initiates an action within a form
Label: provides a text label for the associated input control in a form
Legend: provides a caption for the <fieldset></fieldset> container
Maxlength: limits the number of characters the user can enter
Method: tells the browser how to send the data to the server through the (Get) or (Post)
Multiple: element to accept multiple choices
Name: identifies the form
Name for Input: it specifies the label or variable name
Off: option sets the browser to the standard default processing
Optgroup: allows multiple <option>s in a select element to be grouped logically and identified
Option: defines one element of a menu list created with a <select> element
Parse: divide the data into fields this is the email method
Password: anything you type will appear as special characters usually asterisks
Physical: same as virtual but are added to the text the user enters as if the user had actually coded them
Radio Button: ensures that a user selects only one option from a list
Reset: causes the browser to reset or change all the input areas back to the way they were when the user entered the page
Rows: specifies the number of lines in he input block
Select: creates a list box made up of the enclosed <option> elements
Size: specifies the length of the text entry field
Size: which should be a positive integer, determines how many of the choices are shown when the list box is first displayed by the browser
Style: of the form, those values will apply to the form itself but not necessarily to the contents of button labels, nor to the text areas in which the user will type
Submit: starts the process by which the browser encodes and sends the information to the server
Tabindex: determines the order of access of the elements
Target: direct the return data from a script to a different window or frame than the one that originally contained the form
Text: creates a text entry field
Textarea: creates an area for multiline text-input box
Title: identifies the form when the page is presented
Type: defines which type of input control the form will provide for the user
Value: the field so that if users wish to use the default value they need only submit the form as is
Value: returns the text string contained within the selected <option>
Variable Names: (name, use, and email) chosen by the Web Weaver when the form was built is a generic way of referring to a location in the computer's memory
Virtual: causes the browser to break the input lines at word boundaries in the browser pane
Wrap: causes the browser to break lines on word boundaries as close to the right margin as possible and continue the text on the following line