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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Form: An HTML Form Fields Generation Utility</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet 3.2"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet 3.2"><link rel="prev" href="session_package.html" title="Session Package"><link rel="next" href="form_package.html" title="form"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Form: An HTML Form Fields Generation Utility</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="session_package.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="form_package.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><hr><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="form"></a>Form: An HTML Form Fields Generation Utility</h2></div></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="idm3493"></a>Introduction</h3></div></div></div><p style="width:90%">
The <span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>form</strong></span></span> package is a utility for generating html forms. A <span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>form</strong></span></span>
object command saves the programmer from typing the cumbersome html code of input elements,
working out a solution for better standardization and readability of the code.
<span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>form</strong></span></span> requires that only the minimum necessary to distinguish the element is
typed, greatly simplyfing the development of forms.
Options to the command are treated as a list of parameter-value pairs that become the defaults
for the corresponding attributes of the form.
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A <span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>form</strong></span></span> object has specialized menthods to generate all of the standard
input fields, i.e. text, password, hidden, generic button, submit or reset buttons and
image. <span style="font-family:monospace"><span class="command"><strong>form</strong></span></span> creates select input fields, radiobutton and checkbox
boolean options groups. Also new inputs introduced with HTML5 are supported: color, date,
datetime, datetime-local, email, file, month, number, range, search, tel, time, url, week.
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Other input elements can be generated using the general purpose 'field' method.
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