inputs

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.

TYPE can be one of

• >image
  This is not supported by Mswindows 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

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

This wont work under Windoze

 ROWS=5 COLS=30 ALIGN=middle            

This will work under windoze

<TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=30 ALIGN=middle>            </pre>
</dl>


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<a name="input_submit"><b>submission buttons</b></a>
<pre>
 Type="submit"<br>
 <input value="submit" Type="submit">
</pre>

<hr>
<a name="input_reset"><b>reset button</b></a>
<pre>
 Type="reset"<br>
 <input value="reset" Type="reset">
</pre>

<hr>
<a name="input_check"><b>check boxes</b></a>
<pre>
 Type=checkbox<br>
 <input name=check Type="checkbox" value="check">
 <input NAME=check value="check2" Type=checkbox checked>
</pre>

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<a name="input_radio"><b>radio buttons</b></a>
<pre>
 Type=radio<br>
 <input name=radio Type=radio value="radio"><input NAME=radio value="radio2" Type=radio checked>
</pre>

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<a name="input_passwd"><b>password box</b></a>
<pre>
 Type=password<br>
 <input name=password Type=password value="passwd">
</pre>
</form>

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<a name="select"><LI><select [MULTIPLE]>...</select><P></a>
This creates a pull-down menu containing <a href="#option">Options</a>
in a <a href="#form">form</a>.
<p>
<dt>single select
<dd>
<pre>
  <form>
  <select NAME="direction">
  <OPTION SELECTED> North
    <OPTION> East
    <OPTION> South
    <OPTION> West
  </select>
</form>
</pre>

<dt>multiple single (use ctrl-click to select)
<dd>
<pre>
  <form>
  <select NAME="direction" MULTIPLE >
  <OPTION SELECTED> North
    <OPTION> East
    <OPTION> South
    <OPTION> West
  </select>
</form>
</pre>
</dl>

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

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<a name="isindex"><LI><isindex><P></a>
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.
<p>
What it actually does is to provide a ready built form (standardisation and
all that), all you have to do is provide the processing at the server end. 
<p>
<isindex action=files/search.sh>
Note: <i>on Xmosaic the isindex form is in-lined, on MSwindows the form appears
at the bottom of the screen... weird!!</i>

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<a name="txt"><LI><textarea [rows=<i>rows</i>] [cols=<i>cols</i>]><P></a>
This allows us to put
a panel of text in a <a href="#form">form</a>

<form>
<textarea rows=5 cols=30>
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 area, this is a text area, th
 a text area, this is a text


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