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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

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



      /form>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Heidi Fryzell
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Heidi Fryzell
Front End Web Development Treehouse Moderator 25,178 Points

Hi Malachi,

You have a couple little things going on.

1) You didn't properly close your input tag. This is how the input tag should look:

      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name" /></input>

2) The opening text area tag is missing it's ending bracket ">". This is how it should look:

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

3) You don't want quotes around the button text. This is how it should look:

      <button>Submit comment</button>

4) The opening bracket of the closing form tag was chopped off in your code. It should look like this:

</form>

Hope this helps and happy coding!