<input> HTML input element

Try it

<label for="name">Name (4 to 8 characters):</label>

<input
  type="text"
  id="name"
  name="name"
  required
  minlength="4"
  maxlength="8"
  size="10" />

label {
  display: block;
  font:
    1rem "Fira Sans",
    sans-serif;
}

input,
label {
  margin: 0.4rem 0;
}

<input> types

How an <input> works varies considerably depending on the value of its type attribute, hence the different types are covered in their own separate reference pages. If this attribute is not specified, the default type adopted is text.

The available types are as follows:

<input type="button" name="button" value="Button" />

<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox"/>

<input type="color" name="color"/>

<input type="date" name="date"/>

<input type="datetime-local" name="datetime-local"/>

<input type="email" name="email"/>

<input type="file" accept="image/*, text/*" name="file"/>

<input id="userId" name="userId" type="hidden" value="abc123" />

<input type="image" name="image" src="" alt="image input"/>

<input type="month" name="month"/>

<input type="number" name="number"/>

<input type="password" name="password"/>

<input type="radio" name="radio"/>

<input type="range" name="range" min="0" max="25"/>

<input type="reset" name="reset"/>

<input type="search" name="search"/>

<input type="submit" name="submit"/>

<input type="tel" name="tel"/>

<input type="text" name="text"/>

<input type="time" name="time"/>

<input type="url" name="url"/>

<input type="week" name="week"/>

<input type="datetime" name="datetime"/>

Attributes

The <input> element is so powerful because of its attributes; the type attribute, described with examples above, being the most important. Since every <input> element, regardless of type, is based on the HTMLInputElement interface, they technically share the exact same set of attributes. However, in reality, most attributes have an effect on only a specific subset of input types. In addition, the way some attributes impact an input depends on the input type, impacting different input types in different ways.

This section provides a table listing all the attributes with a brief description. This table is followed by a list describing each attribute in greater detail, along with which input types they are associated with. Those that are common to most or all input types are defined in greater detail below. Attributes that are unique to particular input types—or attributes which are common to all input types but have special behaviors when used on a given input type—are instead documented on those types' pages.

Attributes for the <input> element include the global HTML attributes and additionally: