<input type="text" />

<input type="text" /> Description:

The <input type="text" /> tag submits text to the form.

<input type="text" /> Web Browser Support:

• Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
• Mozilla 1
• Firefox 1
• Internet Explorer 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Opera 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Safari 1
• WebTV / MSNTV
• AvantGo Palm OS
• AvantGo Windows CE
• HTML 3.2, 4.0
• XHTML 1.0
  XHTML Forms Module XHTML Intrinsic Events Module

<input type="text" /> Attributes:

• All the attributes of the input tag, plus:
• bgcolor (optional)
• disabled (optional)
• maxlength (optional)
• name (optional)
• readonly (optional) (HTML 4)
• size (optional)
• type="text"
• usestyle (optional) (WebTV)
• value (optional)
• width (optional) (WebTV)

<input type="text" /> Usage:

• standard text field:

  <form>
  <input type="text" size="30" />
  </form>

• default input field:

  <form>
  <input />
  </form>

• pre-populated text field:

  <form>
  try to add to the sentence in the field<br />
  <input size="10" maxlength="20" value="type a long sentence" />
  </form>

<input type="text" /> Special Notes:

• This is the most commonly used form input field.

More <input type="text" /> Information:

• How to Use the input Tag
• Input Tag Attributes
• HTML Forms Links

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