🔤HTML input: text

allowing the user to enter alphanumeric content

Essentials

At the minimal, the <input> field for type="text" looks like this:

<form action="destination.html" method="post">

    <label for="fname">First name</label>
    <input type="text" name="fname">

    ...    
    
</form>

Other attributes can include:

• maxlength (enforces a maximum character length of input)

• minlength (enforces a minimum character length of input)

• required (enforces some kind of value; cannot stay blank)

• id (identifies the field uniquely)

  • differs from name in that name does not enforce uniqueness

<form action="destination.html" method="post">

    <label for="fname">First name</label>
    <input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" maxlength="50" required>

    ...    
    
</form>

Takeaways

Most of those attributes are self-explanatory and "google-able" but taking note that:

• the difference between a name and id lies on the uniqueness requirement of id

• we can use name multiple times in the same HTML document!