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Add a Text Field ...................................................

3 Type <input.

4 Type type=”text”.

1 In your editor, open an HTML

document that contains a

<form> tag.

2 Between the opening and

closing form tags, type text

as a label for the field.

Add a Text Field

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he most common form control by far is the single-line text field. You can add a text field to your

page through the HTML <input> tag. As you will see, however, most of the form controls use

that tag, so you also need to provide a type attribute, set to a value of text. Also required is

a name attribute, the value of which is used by the server-side script in processing this field. The

name attribute’s value should be a single, descriptive word that begins with a letter and contains

only letters, numbers, and underscore characters.

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