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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Rob Chavez
Rob Chavez
6,530 Points
Posted by Rob Chavez
Rob Chavez
6,530 Points

Why does the page keep freezing, not allowing me to edit my script because I can't click onto it?

At certain spots in the script or once I reach certain challenge sections the text editor freezes and I can't click to edit. Therefore, I have to keep going back and starting fresh. I can't seem to complete the challenge because it keeps freezing before I can get far enough to complete

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>
      <!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">
        <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>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

    </form>

  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Rob,

Sorry to hear you are having problems. You can try logging out, quitting the browser and re-opening and logging in again.

If, however, the problem continues, please contact the Treehouse Support Team

:)

Tim Nicklas
Tim Nicklas
10,667 Points
Tim Nicklas
Tim Nicklas
10,667 Points

Same kind of thing happens to me. However, from my experience, the page doesn't actually freeze, I'm just not able to click into it to get the blinking cursor if I click out. For me, a workaround (I stress workaround, because it is not ideal, but it is working for me) is scrolling to the top of the text editor and clicking around the doctype. This allows me back into the text editor. From here, I am able to navigate down, so I can edit the text again.

See if this works as a temporary fix.

Rob Chavez
Rob Chavez
6,530 Points
Rob Chavez
Rob Chavez
6,530 Points

I kind of figured it out. On my lap top I have the video page on half the screen and my workspaces on the other half. When it is shrunk down to half size occasionally it will not let me click into the editor to make changes. However, when I put it back to full screen it will then let me continue. So that is my little work around trick for it. Thanks for the replies!

Tim Nicklas
Tim Nicklas
10,667 Points

ohhhh, i do that too. that is a much better workaround!