Character Entities - Avaya 4600 Series Administrator's Manual

<input> defines most user input. The type of attribute defines the type of input to use. The
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<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 this browser's context, since this control's
intent is to allow the user to select a file on their local disk.
<button> defines a button that the user can select. This tag behaves much like the <input
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type=button> tag, except the physical appearance is three-dimensional. Also, the button
can display any text, image, or combination thereof.
<fieldset> encapsulates a section of a form's contents to create a group of related form
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controls. The telephone browser puts a simple box around the fieldset.
<label> associates a relationship between a form control and one or more text labels.
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Labels can be tied to form controls by the form attribute in the label and the id attribute in
the form control. They can 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
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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 does not seem to work.
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<option> defines the values available in a <select> scrolling list or drop-down menu.
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<select> defines scrolling lists and drop-down menus.
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<textarea> provides free-form user input and display. This provides a scrolled text area for
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the user to read or type text.

Character Entities

As with any syntactic language, HTML has certain characters that have special meaning. The
two most obvious characters are the < and > symbols, which surround all tags. These
characters cannot be typed in directly if the designer's intent is to display these characters.
Thus, all characters that a Web browser can display are assigned numeric values. In addition,
many of these characters also are assigned names. The numeric values are entered into the
source Web page as &#nnn; where nnn is some 3 digit value. For example, the < symbol is
entered as '&#060;'. Name values are entered into the source Web page as &name; where
name is the name associated with this character. Again, using the < symbol, this would be
entered as '&lt;'. The browser fully supports the set of characters defined by the World Wide
Web Consortium, in conformance with the standard.
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