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JavaScript Treehouse Club - MASH MASH - HTML Forms, Divs, and Inputs

Posted by Amaya Mickens
Amaya Mickens
1,078 Points

how to use a 'div' tag

I don't understand when it tells me i need a class element after the <div tag. I have the class element there with the quote "favorite_stuff"

index.html 
<body>
  <h1>First Day of School</h1>

  <form>

    <div>
      <div class="favorite_stuff">
      <h4>Favorite Foods?</h4>
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
    </div>

    <div>
      <div class="faorite-stuff"
      <h4>Favorite Animals?</h4>
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
    </div>

  </form>

</body>

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Amaya and Welcome to Treehouse.

You're on the right track, but you added a whole new <div>, when the challenge just wanted you to add the class to the two that were already there. Also, in your code, you are missing a closing tag on the 2nd div.

You need to delete the 2 div tags you added (or refresh the challenge) and just add the classes.

The completed code will look like this:

<body>
  <h1>First Day of School</h1>

  <form>

    <div class="favorite_stuff">
      <h4>Favorite Foods?</h4>
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
      <input name="food[]">
    </div>

    <div class="favorite_stuff">
      <h4>Favorite Animals?</h4>
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
      <input name="animal[]">
    </div>

  </form>

</body>

Hope that helps to clear it up. Keep Coding! :)

Amaya Mickens
Amaya Mickens
1,078 Points

Thank you for your help!

Jesse Lawson
Jesse Lawson
11,159 Points
Jesse Lawson
Jesse Lawson
11,159 Points

so a <div> is just an invisible box that you use to build the page, only you can make the box look how you want. :) the reason you want to have "class"s and "id"s is you are giving <div>s <h1>s and other DOM elements names in order to manipulate them with other code like jQuery and css3.

css3 needs to know what element or elements you are talking about when you style them.