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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by Gonzalo Calderon
Gonzalo Calderon
21,653 Points

Task #3 on forms is telling me that task 2 is no longer passing. I already passed task #2

Something is not working on the challenge quiz.

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>
      <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
        <optgroup label="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>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Task 3 is asking you to add a label "Shirt Color". What you've done is added an optgroup (without a closing tag) and added a label attribute to that element. The task wants you to use the < label > element.

<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>

Side Note: Remember, when connecting a label to its input/select/textarea, the "for" attribute on the label must match the input's id, not its name.