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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by skehrt
skehrt
7,271 Points

Everything works fine UNTIL I add this for the label: <label for=color> Shirt Color </label> ????????

I have rewatched the video for labels and it is not obvious to me what I am doing wrong.

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>
        </option>

      </select>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

The issue preventing passing task 2 is that the start tag for the select has no ">" at the end. The extra closing option tag that David mentioned is not correct syntax and should not be there although the challenge doesn't seem concerned about it.

Quote marks around the "for" value in the label are optional.

skehrt
skehrt
7,271 Points

Thank you!

David Holt
David Holt
14,540 Points
David Holt
David Holt
14,540 Points

At a quick glance it seems you are missing the quotation marks. <label for="color"></label>. Also close the select starting tag <select> and you have 1 too many closing </option> tag

skehrt
skehrt
7,271 Points

Thank you!

skehrt
skehrt
7,271 Points
skehrt
skehrt
7,271 Points

Thank you! I need t get use to the detail of every little character.