Forms

HTML forms provide the user the ability to enter data into a web browser. This data can then be passed on the web server for processing. It is difficult to predict what web designers might have in mind for the 4630 IP Telephone Web Browser. However, all forms-related tags have been verified, and the results are presented here.

• <form> defines the basic input form, and defines the action to be performed when the submit button is selected, via the action attribute.
• <input> defines most user input. The type attribute defines the type of input to be used. The <button> tag was created to replace type values of button, reset and submit, in a cleaner, more flexible way. Other type values available are checkbox, hidden, image, password, radio, and text. The type value file is useless in the context of this browser, since the intent of this control is to allow the user to select a file on their local disk.
• <button> defines a button that the user may select. This behaves much like the <input type=button> tag, except that the physical appearance is three-dimensional and any text, image, or combination, may be displayed in the button.
• <fieldset> encapsulates a section of a form's contents to create a group of related form controls. The phone's browser puts a simple box around the fieldset.
• <label> associates a relationship between a form control and one or more text labels. Labels may be tied to form controls by the for attribute in the label and the id attribute in the form control. They may also be tied by embedding the form control inside the <label> tag (for example, <label>Name: <input type=text id=name></label>).
• � <legend> gives a label to a <fieldset> tag. This label appears at the top of the fieldset section of the form, with a line separating the legend from the rest of the fieldset.
• <optgroup> provides nested, cascading menus to the user. This doesn't seem to work.
• <option> defines the values available in a <select> scrolling list or drop-down menu.
• <select> defines scrolling lists and drop-down menus.
• <textarea> provides free-form user input and display. This provides a scrolled text area for the user to read or type text.