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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Angie Clark
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Angie Clark
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,986 Points
Posted by Angie Clark
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Angie Clark
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,986 Points

Is this a bug in the forms code challenge #4? It says that I need to add the <button> element within the <form>.

I have put the button element within the form tags. I don't know why the </form> </body> and</html> tags are underlined red. Is this a problem on the treehouse side or did I do something 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>

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The tags are underlined red to indicate that there is an element above them that is not closed properly. It seems like you accidentally removed the closing tag of the option element while you were adding the button element.

If you add it back 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> <!-- This was missing from your code -->

      <button type="submit">Place Order</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

Then your code will work.