The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. ... and the lesser elements that comprise the form, like <input> and ... we face on the internet—in society—comes back to this one HTML element.

The HTML language provides a range of input types you can use in your forms. For example, to create a checklist, you can include multiple checkbox elements in the form together with descriptive text.

When a developer uses this HTML5 file input tag a web browser will render a file selector, which allows a user to search for files anywhere on their local file system. When this input tag is ...