Using HTML Inputs

Part of the attraction of using technologies like D3.js is that it expands the scope of what is possible in a web page. At the same time, there are many different options for displaying content on a page and plenty of ways of interacting with it.

Some of the most basic of capabilities has been the use of HTML entities that allow the entry of data on a page. This can take a range of different forms (pun intended), and the <input> tag is one of the most basic.

What is an HTML input?

An HTML input is an element in HTML that allows a web page to input data. There are a range of different input types (with varying degrees of compatibility with browsers), and they are typically utilised inside a <form> element.

For example, the following code allows a web page to place two fields on a web page so that a user can enter their first and last names in separate boxes: