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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Regan O'Neill
Regan O'Neill
12,714 Points
Posted by Regan O'Neill
Regan O'Neill
12,714 Points

Creating a button element inside a form element. Help!

In the code challenge for creating a button, I can't seem to get past the 4th task. The directions are to create a button element with the text "Submit Comment" between them.

I cannot see anything wrong with my code apart from possibly some unindented lines or leaving out the quotes ("") around the text inside the button element. Each line of code looks good up until my button element. When this is placed, the closing form, body, and html tags are deselected. Please Help!

Regan O'Neill
Regan O'Neill
12,714 Points
Regan O'Neill
Regan O'Neill
12,714 Points

Here is my code:

<!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 id="comment" name="user_comment">
    <button>Submit Comment</button>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Matthew Ong
Matthew Ong
6,041 Points
Matthew Ong
Matthew Ong
6,041 Points

The textarea element must have a </textarea> closing tag. This should go before the start of your button element.