HTML Basics Tutorial

File upload fields A form can receive documents and other files, such as images, from users. When a user submits the form, the browser grabs a copy of the file…

Hidden fields A hidden field lets you collect name and value information that the user can’t see along with the rest of the form data. Hidden fields are useful for…

Checkboxes and radio buttons If only a finite set of possible values is available to the user, you can give him a collection of options to choose from: Check boxes:…

Password fields A password field is a special text field that doesn’t display what the user types. Each keystroke is represented on the screen by a placeholder character, such as…

Text fields Text fields are single-line fields into which users type information.  Here’s how to create a single-line text field: 1. Define the input type as a text field by…

Input tags The tags you use to collect input from your site visitors make up the bulk of any form. HTML supports a variety of input options, from text fields…

Creating forms HTML forms can present information to users, using text and images. But it can also offer various types of other methods of presenting information, including the following: Text…

How a form looks like? Data collection forms receive information you want to process or save. When you create a form that collects information, the information you need is what…

Adding Headers Cells The th element denotes a header cell, allowing us to differentiate between data and the descriptions of that data. You can see how we added th elements to the table to…

Creating a Basic Table There are three elements that every table must contain: table, tr, and td. There are other elements—and I’ll explain them later in this chapter—but these are the three you…