More about WEB PAGE
Anatomy of the <head>
Grouping content
- Understanding the need to group content
- Using the div Element
- Grouping content into lists
- Dealing with figures
Creating advanced tables
- Adding table headers cells
- Denoting the headings and the table body
- Creating irregular tables
- Applying borders to the table element
Form Handling
- The action attribute
- The method attribute
- Configuring the Data Encoding
- Controlling form completion
- Setting the name of the form
- Adding labels to a form
- Automatically focusing on an input element
- Disabling individual input elements
- Grouping form elements together
- Using the button element
Customizing the input element
- Using the input element for text input
- Setting values and using placeholders
- Using a data list
- Creating read-only and disabled text boxes
- Restrict data entry
Using input validation
As you build more complex forms, it can be convenient to group some of the elements together, which you can do using the fieldset element. You can see how the fieldset element is applied below. We added additional input elements to this example to demonstrate that a fieldset can be applied to a subset of the elements in a form.
Using the fieldset element
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
<meta name="author" content="Adam Freeman"/>
<meta name="description" content="A simple example"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="http://titan:8080/form">
<fieldset>
<p><label for="name">Name: <input id="name" name="name"/></label></p>
<p><label for="name">City: <input id="city" name="city"/></label></p>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<p><label for="fave1">#1: <input id="fave1" name="fave1"/></label></p>
<p><label for="fave2">#2: <input id="fave2" name="fave2"/></label></p>
<p><label for="fave3">#3: <input id="fave3" name="fave3"/></label></p>
</fieldset>
<button>Submit Vote</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>We used a fieldset element to group together two input elements that gather details about the user, and another fieldset to group three input elements that allow the user to vote for his/her three favorite fruits. You can see how the browser shows the default style convention for the fieldset element below.
Adding a descriptive label to a fieldset element
You grouped your input elements together, but you still lack context for the user. You can remedy this by adding a legend element to each of your fieldset elements.
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
<meta name="author" content="Adam Freeman"/>
<meta name="description" content="A simple example"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="http://titan:8080/form">
<fieldset>
<legend>Enter Your Details</legend>
<p><label for="name">Name: <input id="name" name="name"/></label></p>
<p><label for="name">City: <input id="city" name="city"/></label></p>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Vote For Your Three Favorite Fruits</legend>
<p><label for="fave1">#1: <input id="fave1" name="fave1"/></label></p>
<p><label for="fave2">#2: <input id="fave2" name="fave2"/></label></p>
<p><label for="fave3">#3: <input id="fave3" name="fave3"/></label></p>
</fieldset>
<button>Submit Vote</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>You can see how the browser displays the legend elements below.