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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery
9,479 Points

What is wrong with my answer?

<!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>"Submit Comment"</button> </form> </body> </html>

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>"Submit Comment"</button> 
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Hi Michael.

It looks like you haven't created your button correctly.

Your button is an input so you need to specify this as your type attribute.

<input type ="button" />
Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery
9,479 Points

Thank you Jonathan!

Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points
Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

This is how it needs to look < button type = " button "> submit comment < / button >

Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

But without all of the spaces