Here is a text box, which you may use to enter your name, or some other word into a form online. To be able to begin typing into it you must make sure your cursor is in there.

Click with the left mouse button, somewhere inside the box, and once you see your little flashing cursor, you can begin typing into that box.

Next we have some check boxes. Click with the left mouse button and you'll see a tick to show that you have indeed selected that box.

This box
Or this box
Possibly this box
Maybe this box after all

If you click with the left mouse button again on one, you'll see the box becomes unchecked again.

Now onto what are known as radio buttons. These are similar to checkboxes, but they are round.

First radio button
Second radio button
You might have worked out by now that this is the third radio button
Oh look, it's the fourth and final, radio button

You will notice that you can only select one of these radio buttons. This is typically for questions that only require ONE answer to the question.

Next we have lists of things. You click on the small arrow on the right hand side, and the menu will drop down showing you the options you can pick from. You can use the arrow keys, mouse button, even the scroll wheel on your mouse to select different options available.

Apple Bear Car Dog Everyone Flying Machine Group Task Harley Davidson I-LEAD Jello Krysss Leather Monster New Age Octopus Picnic Question Rabbit Steam Train Train Underground Station Vertigo Wednesday Xylophone Zebra

You can also select different options by pressing letters on the key board. If the selection you want begins with an N, you can simply press N on your keyboard to make the menu jump straight to that selection.

Once you have selected a menu, using the arrown keys, or the scroll wheel on the mouse will ONLY SCROLL THIS LIST. The whole web page will not move, until you take the focus, from the list and back onto the whole page by clicking anywhere but on the menu. Once you see the menu is not hightlighted anymore, you will be able to scroll the whole page using the arrow keys, or mouse scroll wheel.

When applying online for different things, you will quite often be asked to make up a password. You will often be asked to enter the password twice, to make sure you know what it is. To stop someone looking and seeing what that password is, the screen will not show individual characters, just the amount you have typed in.
Try typing something into the box below to see how it looks.

Also, passwords are what is known as case sensitive. This means that Apple is not the same as apple when it comes to passwords. So when choosing a password, try to make sure you remember if you used any upper or lower case letters within that word. Typically passwords cannot contain spaces and must be of a minimum length of characters. It is safer to use a mixture of letters and numbers in a password and not really a good idea to use things such as 123456, or 111111, as these can be easily guessed.

You may have a place on a form to write more than just your personal details, such as comments or general information that you need to supply with the form.

Click in the box and begin typing to enter the information, this is just like the text field at the top of this page, but is of course designed for more characters.

Finally there are the submit and clear buttons.

These do what they say on each button. The submit button will submit your form to the server for processing and the clear button will wipe the form clean for you to start all over again, if you feel you have made a complete mess of it and just want to start fresh. You can of course just click on different parts of the form to change individual elements. You do not have to fill them in, in sequence.

This form will not actually be submitted as it is merely a test, so clicking the submit button will not do anything.