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Part IV: Scripting and (X)HTML
The following markup creates two text input fields — one for a first name and
one for a last name:
First Name:
Last Name:
In addition to the elements, the preceding markup includes list
( and ) elements and some text to label each of the fields. By themselves,
most form elements don’t give the user many clues about the type
of information you want them to enter. Lists are covered in more detail in
Chapter 5.
You must use HTML block and inline elements to format the appearance of
your form and also to supply the necessary text. Figure 14-5 shows how a
browser displays this kind of HTML. (To see the HTML source that produced
this figure, visit our Web site at www.dummieshtml.com, pick Chapter 14,
and look at the source code for Figure 14-5.)
Figure 14-5: Text entry fields in a form.
You can control the size of a text field with these attributes:
✓ size: The length (in characters) of the text field
✓ maxlength: The maximum number of characters the user can type into
the field
The following markup creates a form that sets both fields to a size of 30
(characters long) and a maxlength of 25 (characters long). Even though
each field will be about 30 characters long, a user can type only 25 characters
into each field, as shown in Figure 14-6. (Setting the size attribute greater