Lesson 10 Vocabulary

Button- The form of triggers the submission of the form data.

Check Box- are similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection.

Form- is ane element on a Web page that is used to collect data from a Web site user.

Hidden Field- allows a value to be passed from the form to the page that is specified in the Action attribute without the knowledge of the Web user.

Label- <INPUT> tag you keyed was preceded by some text.

Password field- Anything that a user types in a password field will be replaced by asterisks (*) so that anyone watching cannot see the text.

Pull-down menu- are used when you do not want the user to type in his or her own data.

Querystring- Appended to the URL after a question mark.

Radio button- are another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose.

Text area- is a large space in which a user can type his or her comments.

Text box- form element is a box into which the user can key text.