What exactly is an Input

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So I started using FCC about a 3 days ago. I am on the part where you have to make radio buttons. I get what I’m suppose to do and everything except for this one thing.

What exactly is an “Input” anyways?

Thanks for you answers.

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An input could be different types of, well, inputs, just depending on what type you use. For example, for a checkbox, you would set the type to type=“checkbox”, like so:

<input type="checkbox" value="yes">Yes

This will create a checkbox with “Yes” beside it. Ideally, you would wrap the text “Yes” and the input in some other type of container, and the input would have a label associated with it, but for the purpose of answering just the input part of your question, I left that out. Changing the input type will change what type of input it is. It could be a radio button (“radio”) or a text box (“text”), for example.

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Thanks, I understand!

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