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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create Radio Buttons

Posted by Ary de Oliveira
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Points

After the select menu, create a radio button with the ID "small", the value "small", and the name "shirt_size". Don't ad

Code inconsistent, incompatible syntax, invalid with W3C

</cHeck> Ary de Oliveira

<!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>
  <label>Shirt Size:</label>
  <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
     <label>shirt size:</label> 
   <input type="radio"id="small"value="small"name="shirt_size">
     <label>shirt size:</label> 
   <input type="radio"id="medium"value="medium"name="shirt_size">
     <label>shirt size:</label> 
   <input type="radio"id="large"value="large"name="shirt_size">
    <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>

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>
      </select>



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

2 Answers

rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points

Hi Ary!

Just keep in mind that the question is asking you to create radio buttons in this format:

<input type="radio" name="shoe_size" value="large" id="large">

That's all that is really needed at this point. The rest of the question will walk you through adding more radio buttons, and labels. So you want to put the radio selection html after the select (which completes the select menu) and before your submit button.

<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>

       <!-- Radio buttons go here -->

      <button type="submit">Place Order</button>
    </form>
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

You are putting radio button inside the 'select' element.

Put it outside the 'select' element.

Select element can only contain 'option' or 'optgroup' element as its child. MDN select element

Also to point out further. 'label' element needs to embed 'input' or has to have 'for' attribute to correctly bind input element.

<form>
  <select>
     ....some options....
  </select>

  <label>
    myLabel1
    <input type="radio" id="foo"></input>
  </label>

  <label for="bar">myLabel2</label>
  <input type="radio" id="bar"></input>

Syntax for 'for' attribute is for="id_of_input"