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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Malinda Weiner
Malinda Weiner
6,957 Points

The quiz does not recognize my <button></button> tags within the form element.

I believe there's an error in the quiz, since although I placed the <button></button> tags within the <form></form> element, it does not seem to recognize that I have done so and keeps telling me to do that. I even tried adding attributes to see if there was an objective error, but still nothing. This is frustrating.

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="comment" name="user_comment">
      <button type="button">
        Submit Comment
      </button>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

I believe the error is in the question before, the textarea tag needs a closing tag I don't know why it lets you pass without one.

<textarea>Content</textarea>

After adding the closing tag your button will work.