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HTML HTML Forms Organizing Forms Add Labels

Posted by Michael Oyelami
Michael Oyelami
2,970 Points

Create a label with a for attribute that matches the input element's ID. Between the label tags, write the text "Name:".

Does not work in task mode is there something wrong with my code?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <form action="index.html" method="post">
      <Label for="name:">Name:</Label>
      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"></textarea>
      <button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Karen Fletcher
Karen Fletcher
19,189 Points
Karen Fletcher
Karen Fletcher
19,189 Points

Your answer looks great, the only issue is an extra semi-colon in the for attribute name.

<Label for="name">