The Intrinsic Text Control

The intrinsic Text control is used as an input device to receive text. It is quite similar to the TextBox control in Visual Basic. The intrinsic Text control is implemented with the <INPUT> tag.

Attributes

NAME A string representing the name of the Text control
VALUE A string representing the default value of the control
SIZE An integer representing the length of the control in characters
MAXLENGTH An integer representing the maximum number of characters allowed in the control

Events

OnFocus Fires when the control receives the focus
OnBlur Fires when the control loses the focus
OnSelect Fires when the contents of the control are selected
OnChange Fires when the control is changed

Syntax

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" [NAME="string"] [VALUE="string"]

[SIZE="integer"] [MAXLENGTH="integer"] [OnFocus="subroutine"] [OnBlur="subroutine"] [OnSelect="subroutine"][OnChange=" subroutine"]>

Example

<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Text1" VALUE="Default Text" SIZE="50" MAXLENGTH="30">
</FORM> 

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