- Click in the form where you want to place the text box.
If you are inserting a form field but have not already created a form, Microsoft FrontPage automatically creates a form area and inserts the field inside that form area. The form area appears as a dashed line when you are editing the page.
- On the Insert menu, point to Form, and then click Textbox.
- Type the label for the text box directly on the form.
Set the properties for a text box
- Double-click the text box.
- In the
Name box, type a name to identify the text box.
For your form to work correctly, you need to use a unique name for this form field.
- If you want text to appear in the text box when a site visitor first opens the form, type the text in the Initial value box.
- In the Width in characters box, type a number indicating how many characters wide you want the box to be.
Next to Password field, click Yes to ensure that characters in this text box do not display on the screen.
Security  Specifying this option does not encrypt data that is typed in this text box.