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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Stephan Riess
Stephan Riess
3,764 Points

Why the form code does´t validate?

<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>

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

Can you please post your code so we can take a look at it? :)

Try to use the code mark-up by wrapping your code with three `.

2 Answers

Stephan Riess
Stephan Riess
3,764 Points
Stephan Riess
Stephan Riess
3,764 Points

Hi, I forgot the <textarea> closing tag.

These forums are a bit confusing. I thought I have posted the code, but somewhere on the way it got lost. Guess the UX of the forums should be improved.

Thanks for your answers Stephan

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

Glad you got it fixed!

You need to add three ` before and after your code, or else it won't show up. If you watch the video on right, under "Tips for asking questions" It will explain more about it :)

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

I thought it might be the closing tags! :) If my answer helped, don't forget to mark it as the best answer.

If the forums just allowed any code to be pasted straight in, then either it would all get parsed/run and we would see all kinds of weird stuff, or we wouldn't have the nice formatting options we get now.

Also check out the <a data-featurette="modal-trigger" data-target="markdown_cheatsheet" href="#" id="featurette-10">Markdown Cheatsheet</a> that is linked just under the post/comment/answer box when writing something on the forums.

Oh and who is Stephan...?

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Don't forget that the form, textarea and button tags all need closing tags. The input element should not have a closing tag (and in XHTML has to be a self-closing tag).