Creating an input box

To create a text box, simply fill out the form shown below. As an example, see the image shown below.

From this example, we want to:

• label our text box as "First Name",
• use the name "FName" to identify this text box from other text boxes or fields inside a form,
• use the default value as "John",
• create the text with size of the text box set to "22", and
• allow up to 20 characters (maximum characters user can type) in the text box.

The following shows the output of such text box:

Notice above the values of the name, size, and maxlength attributes are not visible on the browser. Read more about input box attributes and how to create an input box.