HTML forms use input elements. There are various different types of input element, including buttons, check-boxes, text-fields and more. The "type" attribute for an input element determines its ...

In addition to extending the types supported by the input element, HTML5 adds support for the output element. The purpose is to display the output of a calculation such as one calculated in a script.

HTML knows it as an input tag as shown in the following example: Advertisement. Article continues below this ad. This input tag creates a text box that has two important attributes; id and type.

For the remainder of the article, I'll enumerate each of the features highlighted in Figure 1, breaking the features down as either new HTML5 attributes or new type values on the input element. Input ...