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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Posted by Lalit Belwal
Lalit Belwal
2,920 Points

Label element

Add a label element to the select menu with the text "Shirt Color:"

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">
        <label for"color">"Shirt Color"</label>
        <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>
Dejuan Castro
Dejuan Castro
3,347 Points

Your label element isn't completed

Joe Hund
Joe Hund
Courses Plus Student 7,286 Points

missing = in for="color"

1 Answer

Rabin Gharti Magar
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Rabin Gharti Magar
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,926 Points
Rabin Gharti Magar
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Rabin Gharti Magar
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,926 Points

Hey Lalit,

The code you have written is almost correct, just a few corrections need to be made. <label> should be above the <select> tag and after for attribute add = sign. It should work fine after these changes.

Final outcome:

<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>

To learn more about <select> tag, check out this link: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp

Happy Coding!