Source HTML tags and attributes — Overview

Description

Tag

Form tag

In most cases, omit attributes in the form tag:

<FORM>

You can use the URL directive to specify a default action in the FORM tag. For example:

<FORM ACTION={URL "default-action-specification" } >

Submit buttons

<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="pyStream=myStream">

<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="pyActivity=myActivityClass.myActivity">

Anchors

<A HREF="{URL "pyActivity=Myclass.myActivity"}"><P>My anchor text</P></A>

Images

<IMG SRC="myImage.gif">

Text boxes

Use this syntax for a text box:

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="{THIS-NAME}" >

For a text box defined in an HTML Property rule, see the Note.

Use ordinary HTML to present a fixed list of drop-down choices.

Optionally, use the Dynamic Select control to provide a drop-down list of choices for the user, determined by a custom activity. See Dynamic Select control.

Check boxes

The syntax for a check box looks like:

<INPUT NAME="myPage.myProperty" TYPE="checkbox"
VALUE="true" >

For a text box defined in an HTML Property rule, see the Note below.

Selection boxes

Use this syntax for selection boxes:

<SELECT NAME="{THIS-NAME}">
<OPTION VALUE="CORP">Corporate Account
<OPTION VALUE="REG">Regular Account
<OPTION VALUE="PRES">Prestige Account
</SELECT>

For a text box defined in an HTML Property rule, see Note below.

TextArea

Use this syntax for a text area:

<TEXTAREA NAME="{THIS-NAME}" ROWS="n" COLS="n">
your default text</TEXTAREA>

For a text box defined in an HTML Property rule, see the Note below.

Use the Foreach directive and the With directive to produce a set of option buttons that correspond to property values.

For example, the following source creates a line for each child of the MyChildren property, a Page List:

{with target = ".Target" }
{foreach in .MyChildren }
<input type="radio" id="SelectChild" value="$THIS.ChildName" >
{.ChildName}<BR>
{endforeach}
{end}

and stores the name of the selected child in the Select