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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
4,941 Points

challenge task 5 of 5

hie guys , am facing challenges with this task though my code it looks just like in Nicks video

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>

  </body>
</html>
<form action="index.html"method="post">
  <input type="text"id="name"name="user_name">
  <textarea id="comment"name="user_comment"></textarea>
  <button type>Submit Coment</button>
    </form>

2 Answers

Nick Yoho
Nick Yoho
6,957 Points
Nick Yoho
Nick Yoho
6,957 Points

Try moving the closing html tag to the bottom of your code and putting your form within the body tags

Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
4,941 Points
Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
Mitchelle Mkhwananzi
4,941 Points

Hey Nick thanks for replying,i have tried that n bummer says "you need to add a type attribute to the button element"

Gina Mills
Gina Mills
15,668 Points
Gina Mills
Gina Mills
15,668 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html"method="post">
  <input type="text"id="name"name="user_name">
  <textarea id="comment"name="user_comment"></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Important bit: <button type="submit">