`<INPUT ...>`

Usage Recommendation
use it

TYPE: what type of field
NAME: name of this form field
VALUE: initial or only value of this field
SIZE: how wide the text field should be
MAXLENGTH: maximum number of characters
CHECKED: check this checkbox or radio button
BORDER: border around image
SRC: URL of image
ALT: text to show if you don't show the picture
LOWSRC: a version of the picture that isn't such a big file
WIDTH: width of image
HEIGHT: height of image
ALIGN: how text should flow around the picture
VSPACE: vertical distance between the picture and the text

HSPACE: horizontal distance between the picture and the text
READONLY: the value of this field cannot be changed
DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field
ACCESSKEY
TABINDEX: tab order
LANGUAGE: scripting language to use
onClick: when the user clicks here
onChange: when this field is changed
onFocus: when this field gets the focus
onBlur: when this field loses the focus
onKeyPress: script to run when a key is pressed
onKeyUp: script for when a key goes up while the field has the focus
onKeyDown: script for when a key goes down while the field has the focus
AUTOCOMPLETE: If the browser should use autocompletion for the field

<INPUT ...> creates the data entry fields on an HTML form. (Well, it creates most types of fields, <TEXTAREA ...> and <SELECT ...> also create some, as does the new <BUTTON ...> tag.) The TYPE attribute establishes what type of field the input is creating. The other <INPUT ...> attributes affect different types of inputs different ways (or not at all). So let's jump straight into the TYPE attribute and look at the different types of input fields.