inputs

The <INPUT> tag is used in forms and allows interaction with the httpd server.

There are several types of input tags:

INPUT - buttons and text-boxes.
textarea - multi line input fields
isindex - predefined form useful for searching.
select - list and menu selection.

Creates an input field in a form. NAME must be present for all types of input except submit and reset

TYPE can be one of

image
This is not supported by Ms-windows Mosaic.
checkbox
can be toggled on and off.
submit
calls the action specified in the form.
password
like a text input, but all input is represented by asterixs not Obelisks
radio
radio buttons. Input fields with the same NAME field. only one radio button of the same NAME can be checked at any time.
reset
clears all the fields in the form.
text
*default* an input field
file
copies the contents of the file into a variable. netscape extension

Plain input field

  <form>
    <input NAME="From">
  </form>

text areas
On Xmosaic, the SIZE parameter is interpreted as a textarea. This is ignored in Mosaic for Windoze and proper TEXTAREAS should be used.

This wont work under Windoze

 
 ROWS=5 COLS=30 ALIGN=middle

This will work under Windoze


<TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=30 ALIGN=middle>            This is a textarea

submission buttons


Type="submit"

reset button


 Type="reset"

check boxes

radio buttons

password box


 Type=password

This creates a pull-down menu containing Options in a form.

single select

  <form>
  <select NAME="direction">
  <OPTION SELECTED> North
    <OPTION> East
    <OPTION> South
    <OPTION> West
  </select>
</form>

multiple single (use ctrl-click to select)

  <form>
  <select NAME="direction" MULTIPLE >
  <OPTION SELECTED> North
    <OPTION> East
    <OPTION> South
    <OPTION> West
  </select>
</form>

produces:

This is probably the strangest tag. When I first saw it, I though that it provided a free text searching capability on a set of documents.

What it actually does is to provide a ready built form (standardization and all that), all you have to do is provide the processing at the server end.

Note: on Xmosaic the isindex form is in-lined, on MSwindows the form appears at the bottom of the screen... weird!!

This allows us to put a panel of text in a form

in Xmosaic, the text is shown within the text area.