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A.16 Using HTML Forms

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Text Areas

  Usual form:

 ... </b></font></pre></span>
<span name = "INTRA" style='top:345px; left:251px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>Some text</b></font></pre></span>
<span name = "INTRA" style='top:367px; left:231px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>

  Attributes: 

NAME

 (required), 

ROWS

 (required), 

COLS

 (required), 

WRAP

(nonstandard), 

ONCHANGE

, 

ONSELECT

, 

ONFOCUS

, 

ONBLUR

, 

ONKEYDOWN

, 

ONKEYPRESS

, 

ONKEYUP

  White space in initial text is maintained and HTML markup between 

start and end tags is taken literally, except for character entities such as 

<

, 

©

, and so forth.

Submit Buttons

  Usual form:

 (no end tag)

  Attributes: 

NAME

, 

VALUE

, 

ONCLICK

,

 ONDBLCLICK

, 

ONFOCUS

, 

ONBLUR

  When a submit button is clicked, the form is sent to the servlet or other 

server side program designated by the 

ACTION

 parameter of the 

FORM

.

Alternative Push Buttons

  Usual form:

HTML Markup

  Attributes: 

NAME

, 

VALUE

, 

ONCLICK

,

 ONDBLCLICK

, 

ONFOCUS

, 

ONBLUR

  Internet Explorer only.

Reset Buttons

  Usual form:

 (no end tag)

  Attributes: 

VALUE

, 

NAME

, 

ONCLICK

, 

ONDBLCLICK

, 

ONFOCUS

, 

ONBLUR

Except for 

VALUE

, attributes are only for use with JavaScript.

Alternative Reset Buttons

  Usual form:

HTML Markup

  Attributes: 

VALUE

, 

NAME

, 

ONCLICK

,

 ONDBLCLICK

, 

ONFOCUS

, 

ONBLUR

  Internet Explorer only.

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