Additional New HTML5 Attributes Additional input element attributes to consider are shown in Table 1, although these don't generally have a user visible aspect associated with them.

HTML input elements are used to capture various types of data. The checkbox element provides a box users can click to select and click again to deselect, toggling between checked and unchecked.

That's all it takes to create an HTML input element and assign it to a variable named "box." The box object doesn't become a text box until you give its type attribute a value of "text" as shown ...