"Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide 2nd Edition"
19 A Select input allows the user to make a selection from a number of choices in a pop-up menu.
The next form element is the select, shown in Figure 6.19, which is better known by the term pop-up menu. I think it??™s pretty clear how a select works from the markup above; just note that the name/value pair passed to the server is the value of the name attribute of the select element and the value of the value attribute of the selected choice, drink_choice=tea, for example. THE SUBMIT BUTTON INPUT CONTROL FIGURE 6.20 Clicking the Submit button causes all the form data to be submitted to the URL speci?¬? ed in the action attribute of the form element.
Finally, there is the Submit button, shown in Figure 6.20, which rather confusingly is an also an input element, just like a text ?¬? eld, but which magically becomes a button when its type attribute is submit. The value attribute simply determines the text that appears on the button. Note that you can??™t just drop inline elements into the page when the DOCTYPE is Strict??”the immutable laws of XML demand that inline elements be enclosed in an appropriate block level element, and according to the W3C validator, form just doesn??™t input must be wrapped in a block level element to validate STYLIN??™ WITH CSS - CHAPTER 6 198 cut it for an input element.