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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by Dominique Armstrong
Dominique Armstrong
3,559 Points

Why isn't this task accepting the submit button for this form?

It keeps giving me an error that the <button> element is not in the form. Am I missing something here?

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>

1 Answer

Nicholas Grenwalt
Nicholas Grenwalt
46,626 Points
Nicholas Grenwalt
Nicholas Grenwalt
46,626 Points

You have your button nested in your <select> element. First close out the select element using </select> right after your last option and then place the button outside of the closing select tag and it should work. This is because all your drop down options go inside the select, the submit button is a separate piece altogether. Hope that helps.

Dominique Armstrong
Dominique Armstrong
3,559 Points

Yup, I forgot to close out the select element and it worked. Thanks Nicholas for the help! :)