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CHAPTER

Adding Forms to Your Site 11

● The text field appears and is

editable when the page is

viewed in a browser.

5 Type name=”?”, replacing?
with a name for the field.

6 Type />.

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TIPS

Can I change the size of the field?

Yes. You can use the HTML size attribute to set

the field’s width. The attribute takes as its value a

number, theoretically set to the number of

characters that will display in the field. You can also

use the CSS width property. See Chapter 4 for more

about CSS.

Can I restrict how much text a user can add to

the field?

Yes. Adding the maxlength attribute of the

<input> tag restricts the user to entering only

the specified number of characters into the field.

You can also specify a value attribute to

prepopulate the field with text.