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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by Thomas Duckett
Thomas Duckett
8,038 Points

Please help me with my label. I've tried it a dozen different ways. Not sure if its syntax, placement, or both.

Can you help me find whats wrong with the label element in my code?

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>
      <select id="shirt_color">
           <label>Shirt Color: <input type="text"></label>
        <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>

1 Answer

hamsternation
hamsternation
26,616 Points
hamsternation
hamsternation
26,616 Points

First off, you want the id to be "color" and name to be "shirt_color", so line 11 of your code should look like this:

<select id="color" name="shirt_color">

The label should also go outside the selector, and it needs a "for" statement to link it to the selector, as such:

<label for="color">Shirt Color:</label>

and finally, Buttons are created outside the selector element but before the closing of the form. 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>

let me know if that explanation helped.