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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

on the button element created in the last step,add a type attribute with the value"submit"

on the button element created in the last step,add a type attribute with the value"submit"

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

3 Answers

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

You've added the type attribute to a different button element than what you created in the first step (actually, you just added a new opening tag with a type attribute in it).

<button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>
Zoltán Holik
Zoltán Holik
3,401 Points
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
    <form action="index.html"method="post">
      <input type="text"id="name" name="user_name">
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"></textarea>
      <button type="submit" value="submit">Submit</button>
    </form>
  </head>
  <body> 
  </body>
</html>

question : Add an action attribute to the form element with the value "index.html".

answer:<form action="index.html"></form>

i still get a bummer now i dont know im stuck i cant move ahead...arrgh stressful