I will leave out the head, body, title and form tags from now on. Needless to say, leave them in your document.
Every input needs a NAME .
Note- be sure to use quotes where I've specified. We can specify the size of the text input box. You probably already know, by the way, that the default value is the value that the browser assumes if you have not told it otherwise. Note - A text box is not always the same size between browsers. Author a form with one browser, then view it in another browser, and you'll see them rendered a little differently.