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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics The Input Element

Chris Maybe
Chris Maybe
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Posted by Chris Maybe
Chris Maybe
6,284 Points

words in quotes

Are the words in quotes ("mail", "name", "user_password", etc,) just chosen arbitrarily by the developer or do they have to be in precisely that format in order to fulfill their desired function?

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Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
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Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Chris,

Those terms are completely up to you. If you wanted, you could give your input a name of 'banana' (though I wouldn't recommend it, unless it somehow made sense!).

Just make sure you refer to the names you give exactly as you gave them (i.e. when referring to an input with the name 'user_name', always check that your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation match exactly; you would see errors if you tried elsewhere to refer to that input by 'User-Name').

Erik

Chris Maybe
Chris Maybe
6,284 Points
Chris Maybe
Chris Maybe
6,284 Points

I see. Thank you!