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Nelson Lourenco
1,766 PointsClosing </textarea> necessary?
Interestingly, I was able to successfully submit my code challenge without a closing </textarea> tag. Is one actually necessary? The Workspaces and my browser seem to think so. If a closing tag is necessary, I would like to know why and why it differs from the <input> tag in that way.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>HTML Forms</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="index.html" method="post">
<h1>Sign Up</h1>
<input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
<input type="email" id="mail" name="user_email">
<input type="password" id="password" name="user_password">
<textarea id="bio" name="user_bio"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsAbsolutely. You need to close it out.
This is what happens if you do not.