Poll: What Do You Call the Areas in Forms?

I was caught off guard today when I explained to a user how to fill in form fields on a form.

The user said “What are form fields?” I pointed to the areas on the form, and the user replied, “I call those spaces or text boxes.”

Their response made me wonder what people call the areas that are filled out in forms.

I’m not looking for the “developer” term; I’m looking for the “person filling out the form” term.

For example, you need to fill out a registration form. What do you call the area where you enter your first name?

So I ran an online poll, asking people:

What do you call the area a person fills in on a form?

Almost 40 people participated in the poll.

Poll Results

Unfortunately Poll Everywhere doesn’t display the poll correctly across all browsers, so I had to take a screenshot of the poll results.

And the winner is “field” followed closely by the term “form field.”