The <input> element
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The <input> element is used to create interactive controls for web-based forms to accept data from the user. Various types of input data and control widgets are available, depending on what use you need. The <input> element is one of HTML's most powerful and complex. The DOM HTMLInputElement interface provides the properties and methods for working with the options, layout, and presentation of <input> elements.
Technical summary
| Content categories |
Flow content, listed, submittable, resettable, form-associated element,
phrasing content. If the type is not
hidden, then labelable element, palpable content.
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| Permitted content | None; it is a void element. |
| Tag omission | Must have a start tag and must not have an end tag. |
| Permitted parents | Any element that accepts phrasing content. |
| Implicit ARIA role |
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| Permitted ARIA roles |
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| DOM interface | HTMLInputElement |