HTML, XHTML & CSS

Figure 14-12: A text box.
Chapter 14: Working with Forms
Submit and Reset buttons
Submit and Reset buttons help the user tell the browser what to do with the
form. You can create buttons to either submit or reset your form, using the
element with the following type and value attributes:
✓ Submit
Visitors have to tell a browser when they’re done with a form and want
to send the contents. You create a button to submit the form to you by
using the following markup:
You don’t use the name attribute for the Submit and Reset buttons.
Instead, you use the value attribute to specify how the browser labels
the buttons for display.
✓ Reset
Visitors need to clear the form if they want to start all over again or
decide not to fill it out. You create a button to reset (clear) the form by
using the following markup:
You can set the value to anything you want to appear on the button. In our
example, we set ours to Clear. Of course, you can use something that’s
more appropriate to your Web site if you’d like.
Listing 14-2 shows an example of markup to create Submit and Reset buttons
named Send and Clear, respectively:
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