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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Textarea

stage 1 challenge 4

On the textarea element,add an id attribute and set the value to "comment"

index.html
<!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="bio" name="comment
      </textarea>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

<textarea id="bio" name="comment"></textarea>

This is your answer. Compare this to yours and you'll see the problem:)

Carla Thomas
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Carla Thomas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,039 Points

Yes, what Nejc is saying is that the opening <textarea> tag should have both the id attribute and name attribute added to it so it looks like this:

<textarea id="bio" name="comment">

...then close it with the closing tag </textarea>.

Let us know if it worked for you.