Text Summary of Form Field Tags

The following is a listing of the different tags used to create form fields, what attributes are required by each tag, and which attributes are optional. This list is a text-only version of the summary table.

input type="text"

required: name

optional: value, size, maxlength, id

input type="password"

required: name

optional: value, size, id

input type="hidden"

required: name, value

optional: id

input type="checkbox"

required: name, value

optional: checked, id

input type="radio"

required: name, value

optional: checked, id

<textarea>

required: name

optional: value, size, rows, columns, id

<select>

required: name

optional: size, multipl, id

<option>

optional: value, selected, id

input type="submit"

optional: name, value

input type="reset"

optional: value

input type="image"

required: src

optional: name, border, align

<fieldset>

<legend>