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Using Forms in Web Pages
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Radio boxes allow you to only select ONE item for a particular "name". Try the following:

  1. Animal
    1. Dogs
    2. Lots of Legs
    3. Birds
  2. Rabbit Food
    1. Twigs
    2. Branches
    3. Leaves
  3. Rocks

Checkboxes allow you to chose more than one item...

  • Red
  • Blue
  • Green
You can also use a form of image map
<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="yourmappic.jpg" Name="map"> BUT you have to have the script on the other end figure out what the coordinates mean. Normally not an easy or straightforward thing to do, and not recommended.

The old text box is a basic option as used above and below:

But, you may want to control their choices (and avoid spelling problems etc) by using a selection box:
Or:

For really wordy people, or for an email like dialogue, a text area box is the thing to do:

And, for creating new forms that need information from a previous form, use a hidden field like so:

OK, so that wasn't very funny. Check the source code and you'll see what it looks like. :)

A newer, less supported tag is <Button> which takes the usual "name" and "value" attributes, as for "type" you can use "submit" "reset" or "button" (which is apparently used in Javascript). Allows you to use a custom image for buttons. :)