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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Andrea Bartholomew
Andrea Bartholomew
3,424 Points
Posted by Andrea Bartholomew
Andrea Bartholomew
3,424 Points

Task 3 not working...

I do task 2 and it says "well done" then I add <optgroup label="Shirt Color"> before all the color options and then </optgroup> at the end of the color options and it says my task 2 is not correct. What am I doing wrong? I have tried everything I can think of and googled it and I feel like I am doing it wright. Apparently I'm not.

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="color" name="shirt_color">
        <optgroup label="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>
        </optgroup>  



      </select>


    </form>

  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Nate Jonah
Nate Jonah
20,981 Points
Nate Jonah
Nate Jonah
20,981 Points

It needs to be a label tag and it should go above the select element then you use the "for" attribute to specify the id of the element that the label corresponds to.

<label for="color">Shirt Color</label>
<select id="color" name="shirt_color">
Martin Zarate
Martin Zarate
10,723 Points
Martin Zarate
Martin Zarate
10,723 Points

Here is the code, the label should be outside the select element:

<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>
Andrea Bartholomew
Andrea Bartholomew
3,424 Points
Andrea Bartholomew
Andrea Bartholomew
3,424 Points

Thank you. I understand this now.