### Using basic web controls

Basic web controls refer to the following: Text Field, Text Area, Checkbox, Radio Button, Image Button, Button, Drop-down List, and List. In most cases, these basic web controls are not used independently. They are bound with some web actions, or put into a form. When a basic web control is bound with some web actions which will be triggered on certain events, any of the events applied to the web control will perform the web actions. You can also add some basic web controls into a form, and then define the form according to your requirements, so that the inputs at runtime can be submitted to JReport Server and thus be processed.

At present, the basic web controls are not supported in web reports and their usages are limited in library components (for details about using basic web controls in library components, see Using the configuration panel).

This section describes how to use the basic web controls as follows:

- Inserting and defining a basic web control
- Binding a link to a basic web control
- Applying web actions to a basic web control
- Making basic web controls work in a form