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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Autumn Silvers
Autumn Silvers
2,995 Points
Posted by Autumn Silvers
Autumn Silvers
2,995 Points

Button in Form

Why isn't this working?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html" method="post">
    <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name"/>
    <textarea type="text" id="comment" name="user_comment"/>
    <button>Submit Comment</button> 
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Autumn,

The textarea element requires both a start and an end tag.

It's not like the input element which only requires the start tag.

<textarea></textarea>

Not closing the textarea throws off the rest of the html and the button can't be found.