Lesson 10 Vocabulary
Button: used to click to submit information.
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 an element to 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: tells the user what to type in the text box.
Password Field: Code that HTML provides so that anything a user types in a password field will be replaced with asterisks (“) so that anyone watching cannot see the text.
Pull-Down Menu: also called drop down lists are used when you do not want the user to type in his or her own data.
Query string: Portion of the URL in which it was 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 areas are not limited to single words or phrases.
Text Box: form element is a box into which the user can key text.
