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What is in a field?
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Online Forms are the backbone of collecting information on the internet. Using the right terminology when discussing changes to your forms with your web developer can often save time and money. So we’ve created a list of common form elements below (and their function).

Text
Collecting a small amount of single line text.

Text area
Collecting a block of text

Hi I am a text field I can have multiple Lines!

Radio button
Selecting a single item out of a group of options. Note if there are a large number of options usually a “select single” (see below) is used to save space.

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

Checkbox
Selecting multiple items out of a group of options. Note if there are a large number of options usually a “select multiple” (see below) is used to save space.

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

Select (single)
Often called a “dropdown”, allows users to select a single item.

Select (multiple)
Often called a “dropdown”, allows users to select multiple items.

Rich HTML Area
Allows formatting of text similar to word.