 | Term | Definition |
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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 |
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Parse |
divide the data into fields this is the email method |
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Contents of the Form |
indicates that the contained data define a form |
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Action |
points to the application that will process the data captured by the form |
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Method |
tells the browser how to send the data to the server through the (Get) or (Post) |
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Enctype |
specify a different encoding format for the data sent from the form to the CGI script |
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Target |
direct the return data from a script to a different window or frame than the one that originally contained the form |
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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 |
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Name |
identifies the form |
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Title |
identifies the form when the page is presented |
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Input |
creates an input element (control) within a form |
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Input Control |
each type of object that collects data or initiates an action within a form |
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Name for Input |
it specifies the label or variable name |
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Type |
defines which type of input control the form will provide for the user |
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Text |
creates a text entry field |
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Size |
specifies the length of the text entry field |
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Maxlength |
limits the number of characters the user can enter |
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Value |
the field so that if users wish to use the default value they need only submit the form as is |
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Password |
anything you type will appear as special characters usually asterisks |
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File |
sometimes users need to send a file back along with the form data |
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Checkbox |
fast way to enter data |
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Checked and Selected |
set a default value or values for a checkbox form |
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Radio Button |
ensures that a user selects only one option from a list |
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Reset |
causes the browser to reset or change all the input areas back to the way they were when the user entered the page |
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Submit |
starts the process by which the browser encodes and sends the information to the server |
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Button |
creates a control that has no predefined function/just look good don't do anything |
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Image |
users see a picture that they can click on |
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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 |
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Disable |
causes the particular element to do nothing |
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Tabindex |
determines the order of access of the elements |
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Textarea |
creates an area for multiline text-input box |
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Rows |
specifies the number of lines in he input block |
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Columns |
is a count of he number of characters across each line |
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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 |
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Virtual |
causes the browser to break the input lines at word boundaries in the browser pane |
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Physical |
same as virtual but are added to the text the user enters as if the user had actually coded them |
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Off |
option sets the browser to the standard default processing |
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Select |
creates a list box made up of the enclosed <option> elements |
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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 |
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Multiple |
element to accept multiple choices |
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Option |
defines one element of a menu list created with a <select> element |
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Value |
returns the text string contained within the selected <option> |
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Optgroup |
allows multiple <option>s in a select element to be grouped logically and identified |
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Label |
provides a text label for the associated input control in a form |
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Fieldset |
defines a grouping of related form controls |
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Legend |
provides a caption for the <fieldset></fieldset> container |
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Accesskey |
provides a single text key that will ring the associated element into focus |
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For |
allows the <label> element to be associated with a particular input control |
