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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Siobhan Robinson
Siobhan Robinson
1,451 Points
Posted by Siobhan Robinson
Siobhan Robinson
1,451 Points

Creating a submit button

Code Challenge keeps saying my code is incorrect. What am I doing wrong?

index.html 
<!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>
      <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> 
        <option value="green">Green</option> 
        <option value="orange">Orange</option> 
        <button type="submit">Place Order</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi,

You look to be missing the closing select tag:

</select>

You'll need to add the button in before the closing form tag so the final code should look something like this:

<!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>
      <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> 
        <option value="green">Green</option> 
        <option value="orange">Orange</option>
      </select>
      <button type="submit">Place Order</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

Hope that helps :)

-Rich

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Not sure specifically what you're trying to accomplish but you didn't close your < select > element. Also, the challenge might want you to use an input element instead of a button for the submit button, which would go like this:

<input type="submit" value="Place Order">
Siobhan Robinson
Siobhan Robinson
1,451 Points
Siobhan Robinson
Siobhan Robinson
1,451 Points

Thanks! The select tag was the issue.

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem :)

-Rich