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informationaboutFormsandFormelementsintheDesigner,see"Forms"onpage640and"Using
Formelements"onpage507.
FormoreinformationaboutelementsinForms,seehttps://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp.
Fieldset
Afieldsetisagroupofrelatedelementsinaform.Theelementsdon'thavetobeofthesametype.
AfterinsertingandselectingtheFieldset(see"Selectinganelement"onpage570)youcanaddele-
mentstoitinthesamewayyouaddelementstoaForm;see"AddingelementstoaForm"onpage507.
Text
TheTextelementisasimple<input>elementwiththetypetext.Itacceptsanyalphanumericalchar-
acters,includingspecialcharacters.ThestringisHTML-encodedbeforeitissubmittedtotheserver.
Email
TheEmailelementisatextinputfieldthatacceptsonlyemailaddressesinavalidformat.
URL
TheURLelementisatextinputfieldthatacceptsonlyURLs(awebpageaddress)inavalidformat.
Password
ThePasswordelementisapasswordfieldthatacceptsanyalphanumericalcharacters.Whentheuser
typesinthisfield,charactersareshownasasterisksonly.
Number
TheNumberelementisatextfieldacceptingonlynumbers.
Date
TheDateelementisatextfieldacceptingonlydatesinavalidformat.
Textarea
TheTextareaelementisatextfieldacceptingmultipleparagraphs.Youcansetanumberofrows
whenaddingtheTextAreatotheForm,andchangeitontheAttributespane.
Hiddenfield
Ahiddenfieldcancontainspecificdatausedbytheserver-sidescript.Itisnotvisibletotheuser.When
addingaHiddenFieldyoucansetthevaluethatwillbesentonsubmit.
Label
ALabelelementisatextdisplayinginformativetextwithintheform.Labelsarenon-interactive.
Notethatthistypeoflabelisnottiedtoaninputelement.Atthesametimeyouaddaninputelement,
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