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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Inna Nesterenco
Inna Nesterenco
1,331 Points

Add a label element to the select menu with the text "Shirt Color:"

i need help with this one

3 Answers

Khaleel Hamid
Khaleel Hamid
5,258 Points

Your label should be before the select

<form action="index.html" method="post">
  <h1>Shirt Order Form</h1>
    <label for="color">Shirt Color:</label>
    <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
      <option value="red">Red</option>
      <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
      <option value="purple">Purple</option>
      <option value="blue">Blue</option>
  </select>
</form>

I'm pretty sure there's a few more color option (green and orange) your suppose to add if it doesn't let you go through after changing that.

Inna Nesterenco
Inna Nesterenco
1,331 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>HTML Forms</title> </head> <body>

<form action="index.html" method="post">
  <h1>Shirt Order Form</h1>
    <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
    <label for="color">Shirt Color:</label>
      <option value="red">Red</option>
      <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
      <option value="purple">Purple</option>
      <option value="blue">Blue</option>
  </select>
</form>

</body> </html>

here is my html what is wrong with it?

Chris Martinez
Chris Martinez
11,715 Points

I was making this same mistake, too. But my logic in placing it after the select tag was that it wouldn't know what ID to reference if it hadn't yet been declared . Maybe I am thinking of how CSS renders a page, or does HTML not use this same logic.