Mr.Adam

Checkboxes

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Checkboxes are similar to radio buttons, but enable the user to make multiple selections..
<input type="checkbox" name="lunch" value="pasta" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" name="lunch" value="rissotto" />

This results in:

Radio Buttons

Radio buttons are used for when you want the user to select one option from a pre-determined set of options.

<input type="radio" name="lunch" value="pasta" /><br /> <input type="radio" name="lunch" value="rissotto" />

This results in:

The Input Tag

This is the most commonly used tag within HTML forms. It allows you to specify various types of user input fields such as text, radio buttons, checkboxes etc.

Text fields are used for when you want the user to type text or numbers into the form.
This results in:

code:
<input type="text" />