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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by Thea Partin
Thea Partin
8,750 Points

What am I doing wrong? Bummer: You don't seem to have any <option> elements within the <select> element. Please add some

Could someone please help.

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>
        </optgroup>
         </select>

    </form>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Brandon White
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Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,771 Points
Brandon White
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Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,771 Points

Hi Thea,

In this case, you’ve simply done more than the challenge asks you to do. You’ve nested your option elements within an optgroup element as opposed to directly within the select element. Get rid of the optgroup element and you should be fine.

For your own future projects there’s nothing wrong with you utilizing optgroups, but the tests for the quizzes have been written by coders like you and I, and they simply haven’t taken into account the idea that the user would have nested their option elements at a deeper level then what’s expected.

Jake Randall
Jake Randall
6,980 Points
Jake Randall
Jake Randall
6,980 Points

Thank you so much, I thought my brain was melting for a good 20 minutes.