MCOM 351 - Teach Yourself Visually HTML & CSS Chapter 9 - Creating Forms
exam review questions
(p.158) ________ use input elements to collect data from a user, such as text fields and check boxes.
(p.158) After a user fills in the data, he or she can click a button to submit a form, and the browser sends the data back to the Web ________.
(p.158 & 176) Web page forms have three important parts: a <FORM> tag, form input elements, and a ________ button.
(p.159) You can guide the user from one input field to the next by controlling the ________ order.
(p.160) ________ are input fields designed specifically for users to type data into.
(p.160) In single-line text boxes, you can control the maximum number of ________ a user can type.
(p.160 & 170) ________ enable a user to select one or more options from a list.
(p.161 & 172) Unlike with check boxes, users may select only one ________ in a set.
(p.161 & 174) In a ________ a user clicks a box to open a list of options from which he or she can select only one.
(p.161) Users need a way to send their data to the Web server. They can do this using a Submit button, which usually appears at the ________ of the form input elements.
(p.162) Your Web host can usually help you set up programs known as ________ to process form information.
(p.162) CGI stands for ________.
(p.163) FTP stands for ________.
(p.164) Click where you want to insert a form and type <FORM METHOD=”?”, replacing ? with ________ or get.
(p.165) You can instruct the browser to send form data to a(n) ________ address.
(p.166) You can add a text box to your form to allow users to type a single-line reply or response. When creating a text box, you must identify the input field with a unique ________.
(p.166) By default, browsers display the text box field at a width of ________ characters.
(p.167) A ________ value is text that appears in the text box when the user views the form.
(p.167) Browsers handle password text boxes a bit differently from regular text boxes. Instead of displaying the characters that are typed, the input field displays the data as ________. This prevents others from seeing the password text.
(p.168) If your form requires a larger text-entry box, you can create a large ________ that holds multiple lines of text.
(p.168) Text area size is measured in rows and ________, based on character height.
(p.169) If a user types more text than is visible in the text area, ________ become active at the side of the text box.
(p.169) A text area automatically holds as much text as the user needs to type, up to ________ characters.
12,700
22,700
32,700
42,700
(p.173) Make sure all radio buttons in a set have the same ________ attribute
(p.175) Keeping a menu size at ________ creates a drop-down menu list.
(p.177) A ________ button lets users erase all the information they typed into the various input fields.
(p.178) To make your form easier to use, you can identify the text beside an input element as a ________.
(p.178) A browser treats label text as a(n) ________ form element, which means if the user clicks it, the input element changes to reflect the selection.
(p.179) By default, the Tab key follows the order in which you entered the input elements in your HTML document. This cannot be changed.
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(p.180) If you want users to send you files, such as resumes or photos, you can add a file ________ element to your form.
(p.180) MIME stands for ________
(p.182) If your form is particularly long, you can organize the different parts into ________.