Chapter 12. Working with Forms, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons

Working with Forms, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons

In this chapter, we’re going to start working with the HTML controls (the HTML data-entry elements, such as buttons, text fields, and so on) that many JavaScript programmers consider JavaScript to be all about. Here we’ll take a look at working with forms, buttons, check boxes, and radio buttons. We’ll also take a look at two elements closely allied to working with forms: the <FIELDSET> and <LEGEND> elements.

The <FORM> Element

The <FORM> element surrounds the kind of controls the user interacts with in a web page—buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and so on. Forms not only ...

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