Have you wondered, "What were they thinking?!" This is your chance to find out! Along with fancy displays and cool sounds, the long list of ActiveX controls includes lots of tools for getting information from visitors to your pages.
For this, chapter and most of the following chapters, you should have the Microsoft Control Pad installed on your system. To install Control Pad though, you must have the latest version of Internet Explorer. Here a shopping list of items:
Example
CheckBox controls display as small
boxes with check marks.
Example
CheckBox controls display as small
boxes with check marks.
Example
The ListBox control offers users a
choice of one (or more) items from a list.
Example
Option buttons are similar to
CheckBoxes, and work well as radio buttons.
Example
Pop goes the menu! Give your users
choices without using valuable screen real estate.
Example
Spinning to the oldies! Usually the
SpinButton is used along with another control, since SpinButtons don't display
their own value.
Example
The TextBox control is miniature
editor that you can include in your pages. If you want users to enter free-form
text, then you can insert a TextBox into your pages.
Example
If you think the world is black and
white, you'll love the ToggleButton control.