Deck 6: Creating a Form on a Web Page

Question 1

Which of the following controls sends a form to a server for processing?

A) enter
B) reset
C) send
D) submit

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The text control has two attributes: ____.

A) cols and rows
B) post and get
C) size and maxlength
D) width and height

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following controls returns all input controls to the default status?

A) clear
B) empty
C) reset
D) new

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The type="____" attribute specifies that the type of control is the radio button.

A) radio
B) check
C) option
D) circle

Question 5

The textarea control has two primary attributes: ____.

A) rows and cols
B) size and maxlength
C) size and width
D) select and option

Question 6

With a checkbox control, the default can be changed so a particular check box is preselected as the default, by using the ____ attribute and value within the tag.

A) chosen
B) default
C) checked
D) preselect

Question 7

The ____ attribute of the text tag specifies the maximum length of the input field.

A) size
B) limit
C) maxlength
D) control

Question 8

A ____ input control is either a radio button, a check box, a Submit button, a Reset button, or a selection menu.

A) select
B) data
C) capture
D) list

Question 9

Which of the following controls is identical to text fields used for single-line data entry?

A) submit
B) textarea
C) password
D) radio

Question 10

The use of which of the following controls prevents the visitor's having to type information into a text field?

A) text
B) textarea
C) password
D) select

Question 11

It is a good rule of thumb to keep the number of columns in a textarea to ____ or fewer.

A) 10
B) 15
C) 25
D) 50

Question 12

Which of the following attributes, when used with the text tag, determines the number of characters that display on a form?

A) character
B) size
C) width
D) dimension

Question 13

A radio button typically displays as which of the following?

A) bullet
B) open circle
C) small rectangle
D) none of the above

Question 14

A ____ control creates a list item in a list from which only one item can be chosen.

A) select
B) solo
C) list
D) radio

Question 15

In a radio control each choice is preceded by a radio ____.

A) menu
B) bar
C) button
D) either b or c

Question 16

A(n) ____ control creates a selection menu of choices from which a visitor selects one or more choices.

A) select
B) option
C) radio
D) checkbox

Question 17

In a ____ box, a visitor may enter small amounts of text.

A) capture
B) link
C) text
D) textarea

Question 18

A(n) ____ control is any type of input mechanism on a form.

A) variable
B) input
C) parameter
D) form

Question 19

____ controls are similar to text controls, except that they allow multiple lines of text input.

A) Password
B) Textarea
C) Capture
D) Either a or b

Question 20

Which of the following controls creates a drop-down menu of choices from which a visitor chooses?

A) select
B) option
C) menu
D) choice

Question 21

There are two primary methods to send the form to the server to be processed: ____

A) send and put
B) get and post
C) get and put
D) CGI and HTML

Question 22

If a selection menu includes the size attribute with a value of 3, ____ choice(s) will appear in the menu.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Question 23

If the ____ attribute was not used to create a selection menu, the Web page visitor will be allowed to select only one choice in the menu.

A) several
B) many
C) choices
D) multiple

Question 24

The size="2" attribute means which of the following?

A) two characters will appear, but more may be entered, depending on the maxlength attribute
B) one character will appear, and the second will be truncated
C) two characters will appear, and no more may be entered
D) at most, two characters can be entered

Question 25

Form controls are useless unless the information entered in the form can be submitted for ____.

A) concatenation
B) processing
C) aggregation
D) all of the above

Question 26

The ____ attribute identifies the specific information that is being sent when the form is submitted for processing.

A) spec
B) name
C) target
D) this

Question 27

The

tag designates that the ____ method will be used to send data to the appropriate location for processing.

A) mailto
B) form
C) post
D) action

Question 28

The default type for the tag is a ____.

A) radio button
B) checkbox
C) text box
D) textarea

Question 29

The ____ attribute of the

tag indicates the URL for the action to be completed by the server.

A) method
B) process
C) action
D) http

Question 30

The <____> tag defines the text that displays in the grouping borders.

A) key
B) legend
C) cluster
D) aggregate

Question 31

The two values of the ____ attribute in HTML are get and post.

A) process
B) server
C) http
D) method

Question 32

The ____ method sends the name-value pairs to the end of the URL indicated in the action attribute.

A) get
B) base
C) post
D) serv

Question 33

Which of the following attributes specifies a reset button?

A) type="option"
B) master="reset"
C) reset="type"
D) type="reset"

Question 34

The ____ attribute of the

tag specifies the manner in which the data entered in the form is sent to the server to be processed.

A) process
B) server
C) http
D) method

Question 35

All controls except one have a ____ attribute.

A) name
B) link
C) value
D) select

Question 36

Which of the following buttons deletes any data previously typed into text or textarea fields?

A) New
B) Restore
C) Clear
D) Reset

Question 37

If no ____ attribute value is specified, a selection menu initially displays only one option, along with a list arrow to view other choices in the list.

A) default
B) choice
C) size
D) checked

Question 38

Which of the following characters strings together all of the form responses?

A) &
B) !
C) @
D) %

Question 39

Which of the following tags gives you the option of using an image for a Submit button, rather than using the default button style?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Question 40

Which of the following is a program written in a programming language (such as Perl) that communicates with the Web server?

A) HTML function
B) CGI script
C) URL imagemap
D) post method

Question 41

By default, all check boxes are pre-selected. _________________________

Question 42

A text control creates a text box that is used for a single line of input. _________________________

Question 43

It is a good rule of thumb to use between 50 and 100 columns of text in a textarea field.

Question 44

A Web page form must include a Reset button. _________________________

Question 45

The paragraph input control creates a multiple-line field for a relatively large amount of text. _________________________

Question 46

Each choice in a check box list can be either on or off.

Question 47

A password always appears as a series of which of the following?

A) characters
B) asterisks
C) bullets
D) ampersands

Question 48

Multiple radio buttons in the same group can be set to a checked state at the same time.

Question 49

A Web page form must include a Reset button.

Question 50

Which of the following is a main component of a Web page form?

A) input controls
B)

tag
C) link to a major search engine
D) Submit button

Question 51

When a Web page visitor clicks the Submit button on the form, which of the following is sent to be processed?

A) parameters of the control
B) value of the data contained with the control
C) dimensions of the field
D) name of the control

Question 52

The reset input control sends the information from a form to the appropriate location for processing. _________________________

Question 53

A checkbox control allows a Web page visitor to select only one choice from a list of choices.

Question 54

The resume and send controls create the Reset and Submit buttons.

Question 55

The maximum length of a text field may exceed the size of the field that displays on the form.

Question 56

Which of the following controls creates a list item?

A) checkbox
B) radio
C) list
D) dropdown

Question 57

A select input control creates a series of check boxes for Web visitors to use.

Question 58

With check boxes, only one option can be selected at a time.

Question 59

A text input control is a ____ box.

A) link
B) textarea
C) password text
D) text

Question 60

Using a Web page form for user input reduces the potential for errors because customers enter data or select options from the form included directly on the Web page.

Question 61

The ____________________ attribute of the text control determines the number of characters that display on the form.

Question 62

The get method sends the name-value pairs to the end of the URL indicated in the action attribute.

Question 63

A FORM script sends the information input on a Web page form to the Web server for processing.

Question 64

Few Web sites use CGI scripts to process forms because this is an inefficient way to handle the data that is sent to a form.

Question 65

HTML5 includes new attributes for the tag.

Question 66

For a textarea field, no value attribute is possible because of the variability of the input.

Question 67

All options in a selection menu are contained within the and tags.

Question 68

If you specify a maximum number of characters that is greater than the number of characters specified in the size attribute, the additional characters will be cut off.

Question 69

When you are collecting information from an online form, it is very important to test that the information is accurate.

Question 70

The

tag within the fieldset tag is required.

Question 71

A(n) ____________________ input control is either a text box, a textarea box, or a password text box.

Question 72

A(n) ____________________ control tells the browser to send the data on the form to the server.

Question 73

The post method is a program written in a programming language that communicates with the Web server.

Question 74

The value attribute of the tag is optional for radio and checkbox controls.

Question 75

You should validate the code after the form is completed and view and test it using your browser.

Question 76

In a(n) ____________________ text box, a visitor may enter a password.

Question 77

In a(n) ____________________ box, a visitor may enter larger amounts of text.

Question 78

If you do not specify a size attribute in the tag, only one option is displayed, along with a list arrow.

Question 79

An embedded style sheet changes the style for a single Web page.

Question 80

Information on forms can be sent by e-mail to an e-mail address or can be used to update a database.