HTML: How to specify a name for the button?

Last update on February 06 2024 11:30:57 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- HTML5 document type declaration -->
<html><!-- Start of HTML document -->
<head><!-- Start of head section -->
<meta charset="utf-8"><!-- Declares document character encoding -->
<title>How to specify a name for the button</title><!-- Sets the title of the webpage -->
</head><!-- End of head section -->
<body><!-- Start of body section -->
<form action="https://www.w3resource.com/html-css-exercise/basic/solution/button-name-answer-demo.php" method="post"><!-- Start of form element with action and method attributes -->
Choose your favorite topic: <!-- Prompt for selecting favorite topic -->
<button name="topic" type="submit" value="JavaScript">JavaScript</button><!-- Button for selecting JavaScript topic, with name attribute set to "topic" -->
<button name="topic" type="submit" value="PHP">PHP</button><!-- Button for selecting PHP topic, with name attribute set to "topic" -->
</form><!-- End of form element -->
</body><!-- End of body section -->
</html><!-- End of HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document starts with a doctype declaration indicating it's an HTML5 document.
Inside the <html> tags, the document structure begins.
The <head> section contains metadata about the document, such as character encoding and the title.
The <body> section is where the visible content of the webpage resides.
Within the body section, there's a <form> element created with the action attribute set to the URL where the form data will be submitted and the method attribute set to "post".
Inside the form, there are two <button> elements for selecting favorite topics.
Both buttons have the name attribute set to "topic", indicating that they belong to the same group of data when the form is submitted.
Each button has a different value attribute specifying the topic it represents (JavaScript or PHP).
The HTML document ends with the closing </html> tag.

Live Demo:

See the Pen button-name-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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