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Stephen Chamroeun
7,095 PointsCreate a Submit Button Suggestion?
For the HTML Forms course, I noticed something for the code challenge "Create a Submit Button". In the 2nd to last task, it tells you to create a button tag with the text "Submit Comment" and to put this syntax AFTER the textarea tags. I've done that multiple times and finally decided that maybe I should put the button tags BEFORE the textarea tags....which I did, and that got me to the next task. Thought I would throw that out there in case anyone was having issues.
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsCreating the button element after the textarea element will satisfy that task, but only if the texarea element is complete.
Unlike "input" elements, which are "empty elements", the textarea element requires an end tag. If you left the textarea element incomplete, that could cause problems in passing the remaining steps.
Stephen Chamroeun
7,095 PointsStephen Chamroeun
7,095 PointsI’m sorry that I wasn’t more thorough with my topic. I did put that text between the tags. It just didn’t go through to the next task unless I put the entire syntax before the text area tags.
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsSteven Parker
231,269 PointsStephen Chamroeun — I suspect the actual issue was an incomplete textarea element.
I have revised my answer to describe the situation more clearly..