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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Maria Sosa
Maria Sosa
881 Points
Posted by Maria Sosa
Maria Sosa
881 Points

what am I doing wrong?!

I don't see what im missing or where i put something wrong

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="shirt_color"> Shirt Color</label>
      <optgroup label="Shirt Color">
        <option value="red"> Red </option>
         <option value="yellow"> Yellow </option>
         <option value="purple"> Purple </option>
         <option value="blue"> Blue </option>
        </optgroup>
      </select>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,968 Points

Task 3 wants you to add a label element. This should go just before the select element and use the id of the select element for binding.

<label for="color">Shirt Color</label>

Also remove the optgroup. Doing more than the challenge asks can cause it to fail.

Maria Sosa
Maria Sosa
881 Points
Maria Sosa
Maria Sosa
881 Points

It worked thank you!