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# HTML form input examples

When you are creating an HTML form, there are several different options for input elements to use. If you can efficiently use the non-textbox components as much as possible, you will make your form easier on your users. To start your HTML form, just enter the opening and closing tags

and

. Between these two tags, you will fit as many other elements as necessary. Here, each of them will be explained in detail along with examples of exact source code needed to implement them.

Client-side form validations help in giving immediate feedback to the user. It is also required to add server side form validation in your form processing script. The user can disable Javascript on their server or even auto-bots might try to submit your form as well.

The server side form validations help keeping the form submission data consistent. The validations also help in lesser server side errors. For example, if you have set length limit in the database for a text input, it is better to do the validation before it actually gets cut off by the database system or even getting an error thrown.