Ch. 11 Web Design II Vocab.
Terms
undefined, object
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- Contents of the Form
- indicates that the contained data define a form
- Text
- creates a text entry field
- Button
- creates a control that has no predefined function/just look good don't do anything
- Checkbox
- fast way to enter data
- Legend
- provides a caption for the container
- Image
- users see a picture that they can click on
- Multiple
- element to accept multiple choices
- 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
- Off
- option sets the browser to the standard default processing
- Submit
- starts the process by which the browser encodes and sends the information to the server
- Value
- returns the text string contained within the selected
- Accesskey
- provides a single text key that will ring the associated element into focus
- Rows
- specifies the number of lines in he input block
- Physical
- same as virtual but are added to the text the user enters as if the user had actually coded them
- Select
- creates a list box made up of the enclosed
- Virtual
- causes the browser to break the input lines at word boundaries in the browser pane
- For
- allows the
- Option
- defines one element of a menu list created with a
- Name
- identifies the form
- Input
- creates an input element (control) within a form
- Optgroup
- allows multiple
- Label
- provides a text label for the associated input control in a form
- Textarea
- creates an area for multiline text-input box
- 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
- Disable
- causes the particular element to do nothing
- Method
- tells the browser how to send the data to the server through the (Get) or (Post)
- Value
- the field so that if users wish to use the default value they need only submit the form as is
- Maxlength
- limits the number of characters the user can enter
- Password
- anything you type will appear as special characters usually asterisks
- Tabindex
- determines the order of access of the elements
- Checked and Selected
- set a default value or values for a checkbox form
- Type
- defines which type of input control the form will provide for the user
- Enctype
- specify a different encoding format for the data sent from the form to the CGI script
- Columns
- is a count of he number of characters across each line
- Size
- specifies the length of the text entry field
- Radio Button
- ensures that a user selects only one option from a list
- Fieldset
- defines a grouping of related form controls
- Input Control
- each type of object that collects data or initiates an action within a form
- 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
- File
- sometimes users need to send a file back along with the form data
- Name for Input
- it specifies the label or variable name
- Reset
- causes the browser to reset or change all the input areas back to the way they were when the user entered the page
- Title
- identifies the form when the page is presented
- Target
- direct the return data from a script to a different window or frame than the one that originally contained the form
- Action
- points to the application that will process the data captured by the form
- 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
- Parse
- divide the data into fields this is the email method
- 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