HTML 2.0: Forms and Obscurities
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HTML 2.0: Forms and Obscurities, created in 1996 by Eric Meyer, is maintained on this server for historical reference. While much of this information is still relevant, it is important to remember that it was written for HTML 2.0. The more current versions of HTML and XHTML in use today have different requirements. To learn more, you may also wish to review our Web Development blog entries on HTML/XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

This tutorial is the sequel to a more basic tutorial, Introduction to HTML, which is meant for people who don't yet know HTML-- so if that describes you, go there first. If you're past an introduction and are looking for information on tables, text color, backgrounds, and other nifty things, try HTML 3.2: Here's Wilbur!.

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Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Requirements

1. Latin-1 Character Entities
   • Background
   • Text Entities
   • Numeric Entities
2. Even More Style Tags
   • Logical Style Tags
   • Preformatted Text
3. Even More Header Elements
   • BASE HREF
   • META
4. Forms Theory
   • Where The Data Goes...
   • No Two Names Alike
   • And Then...
   • The FORM Tag
5. Forms: INPUT, Part I
   • INPUT
   • Text INPUT
   • Password INPUT
6. Forms: INPUT, Part II
   • Radio Buttons
   • Checkboxes
   • Loading Your Questions
7. Forms: SELECT
   • SELECT
   • OPTION Tags
   • The SIZE Attribute
   • The MULTIPLE Attribute
   • SELECTED
8. Forms Cleanup
   • TEXTAREA wrap
   • INPUT Redux
   • Hidden
   • Submit and Reset
   • Speaking of Values...

• Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

• Appendices
  • A. Tag Summary
  • B. Example Form
  • C. References
• Glossary
• Index

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