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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Vytautas Dargis
Vytautas Dargis
1,415 Points

Why I cannot pass this task?

<!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>  // THIS PART. IT SAYS <button> has to be inside <form>

</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

Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points
Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points

Hi mate! Textarea is not a self-closing tag so in order to solve the problem here, you must close the textarea tag:

</textarea>

Hope you find this answer useful!

Cheers and Keep Coding!

Vytautas Dargis
Vytautas Dargis
1,415 Points
Vytautas Dargis
Vytautas Dargis
1,415 Points

Worked well.

Cheers!