Form Tags

More INPUT Attributes

Each INPUT field must have a NAME attribute which is associated with the input value. For example, if you were building an OPAC searching form and had two fields: 
Enter a Title: 

Enter an Author: 

<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Title"> 
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Author">

would pair whatever the user enters in the text field with the name Author, and the Title data with the name title, the gateway could construct an author-title search from the input.

The VALUE attribute will set a default value (up to 1024 characters):

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" VALUE="Blacksburg, VA">

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