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RSSwikiHow Atom feed RSSwikiHow: How-to of the Day MESSAGES LOG IN EXPLORE HELP US EDIT Search Home» Categories» Computers and Electronics» Internet» Website and Blog Creation» Markup Languages» HTML Article Edit Discuss Edit Article How to Create a Text Input Using HTML Sample Code Creating a Text Input Using HTML Edited by Zeal, MA, Luv_sarah, Teresaand 23 others HTML forms are what you need for getting user input. But first, you need to make a text box! Here is a simple tutorial on how to make a text box if you're using Windows. Sample Code Sample HTML Text Input Creating a Text Input Using HTML 1Create an HTML page.To do that, open up Notepad or any other plain text editor. On Windows, you can access Notepad via the Start Menu, at: "Accessories", then "Notepad". Or, use the Windows key + R, then typenotepadand press enter. Ad 2Put in the code.Write the normal tags (), and it should look like: 3Now that you have the base code, you're ready to make a form to hold the text box and then make the text box. *.Between the two body tags, ( and ), type:

. *.Next the actual input element, type:. *.Finally, close the form tag, type:

. 4Save the page.Click "File", "Save As", and then save it as test.html. Or, save it as anything.html. 5Open up the window and see your new text box! *.Using JavaScript, now you could make the text box do something in conjunction with a button! *.If you want to put some text before the input box to explain what it is, do so before the tag. Ad Add your own method1. Save Video This tutorial shows you a few more tricks with creating the basics of a form. Tips *.You also want to include an id. Right after name="whatever", put id="whatever". It is recommended to use the same id as the name for ease of use. *.You can also use other programs, such as Notepad++, PSPad, JEdit, etc. More complex (and expensive) programs such as Dreamweaver are good too. *.As the video shows, you can set a maximum amount of characters to the box! Just add the maxlength attribute to the input tag. It would look like: maxlength="10".Ad Things You'll Need Any text editor Browser Related wikiHows How to Create a Big Block Text Box for an HTML Form How to Create a Check Box with HTML How to Create HTML Forms How to Use Font Color Tags in HTML How to Shim Text Around a Table in HTML How to Link Within a Page Using HTML How to Create a Simple Web Page With HTML How to Create a Form in HTML That Can Be Submitted to an Email Address Article Info Featured Article Categories: Featured Articles| HTML Recent edits by: Chris, Jeff, Frostmaker84 Discuss Print Email Edit Send fan mail to authorsAd Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 30,926 times. Was this article accurate? Yes No Random Article Write An Article [Ad] m.airtel.in/dth Related Articles How to Create a Questionnaire in HTML How to Set a Background Image in HTML How to Create an Email Link Using HTML Programming How to Create a Dropdown Menu in HTML and CSS Share Pin It Featured Articles How to Construct Regular Polygons Using a Circle How to Deal With Criticism How to Drink Bourbon How to Build a Portable Cat's Tree House Meet a Community Member Meet Laura , a wikiHowian from Ohio who has been on the site over 3 years. She has started 88 articles, many of which have been chosen as Rising Stars , and she has made over 9,900 edits on the site. She is a Featured Author , and her favorite ways to help out are patrolling recent changes and formatting articles . The first article she worked on for wikiHow was How to Create a Signature With Pictures in Outlook Express in Windows Vista , but her favorite articles to work on have been those related to caring for people with dementia and to parenting teens, for which she’s used her own experiences as a guide. She loves how the people in the wikiHow community jump to help each other with edits and problems. Her advice to new contributors is to take your time to get to know all the tools and to invest your energy and heart into writing well-researched, quality how-tos . Join The Community Follow Us On... Home About wikiHow Terms of Use RSS Site map Log In All text shared under a Creative Commons License. Powered by Mediawiki. Contribute to wikiHow! Edit this article