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Start your free trialHarvey Bracken-Smith
Courses Plus Student 4,243 PointsI don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't do it
please help
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>HTML Forms</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="index.html" method="post">
<form action="index.html" method="post">
<h1>Shirt Order Form</h1>
<select id="color" name="shirt_color">
<label for="shirt_color">Shirt Color:</label>
<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>
</form>
</select>
</form>
</form>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Heidi Fryzell
Front End Web Development Treehouse Moderator 25,178 PointsHi Harvey,
It looks like you have accidentally created two form elements. Nested inside each other.
Also I think you have an extra </select> tag.
The <label> for Shirt Color should reference the id attribute and not the name attribute.
I think this is what you need to do to fix it.
<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>
</form>
Harvey Bracken-Smith
Courses Plus Student 4,243 PointsThank you so much