A demostration of forms

This is a text input box:
This is a password input box:

Note that when you type characters in a password field, the browser displays asterisks or bullets instead of the characters.

This is a checkbox:
Bike:

Radio buttons allow you to restrict users to one choice. The options they choose from will all have the same mane attribute, but different value attributes to allow you to distinguish them. If you want two sets of radio buttons, give each set a different name. Notice in this example, you can select both radio and one of the others, but you cannot select male and female at the same time.

Radio:
Male:
Female:

Below is an example of how to create a drop down box. Notice that the option tags have no end tags and are between the start and end select tags. This is very similar to a normal HTML list.

Text areas allow longer input.

Text areas can be made readonly with an extra attribute.

This is a text area that the user cannot write in.

You can also add buttons.

A very important button is the submit button. When a button that is of type submit is hit, it results in the form being posted.

You can also surround your form with a box to indicate that it is different from the rest of the page. You do this with the fieldset tag.

This will be the "title" of the box