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Dropdown List
The dropdown list uses … to allow users to choose from a list provided
by …. The list can be full choice as below, or have a preselected option
by adding selected=”selected” after one of the option values.
Mocha
Latte
Cocoa
Email
HTML5 only, partly supported. The good news is that all browsers that don’t support
it see input type=”email” the same way they see input type=”text”, so there is no error
in using this. However, on the iPhone, when the email attribute is used, some devices
will respond by offering an alternate keyboard on the screen which is optimized for typing
email addresses. Good for your visitors. Also, interestingly, browsers that support
HTML5 validation automatically look at any input type=”email” as something that needs
the email to be in an appropriate format before the form is sent.
Email:
URLs
HTML5 only, partly supported. Like the email attribute all browsers that don’t support it
see input type=”url” the same way they see input type=”text” while the iPhone responds
by offering an alternate keyboard on the screen which is optimized for typing web addresses.
Good for your visitors.
Website:
Submit Button
A submit button is used to send form data to a server. The data is sent to the page specified
in the form’s action attribute. The file defined in the action attribute usually does
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