Many field properties, such as AnchorPoint, ControlField, Name, and TabSeqNum, are common to all fields, and others, like BgColor, FgColor, and MouseDownText, are common to a majority of the fields. Therefore, descriptions of these common properties follow immediately in alphabetical order.

These descriptions are then followed by in-depth discussions of some of the characteristics, such as focus behavior, gravity, and tab sequencing, that many of the fields share.