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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create Checkboxes

Posted by Jayson Santos
Jayson Santos
Courses Plus Student 608 Points

I need help with this I tried everything but I can move on

could you please someone help me out of this. I cant move on.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html" method="post">
      <h1>Shirt Order Form</h1>
      <label for="color">Shirt Color:</label>
      <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
        <option value="red">Red</option>
        <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
        <option value="purple">Purple</option>
        <option value="blue">Blue</option>
        <option value="green">Green</option>
        <option value="orange">Orange</option>
      </select>
      <label>Shirt Size:</label>
      <input type="radio" id="small" value="small" name="shirt_size"><label for="small">Small</label><br>
      <input type="radio" id="medium" value="medium" name="shirt_size"><label for="medium">Medium</label><br>
      <input type="radio" id="large" value="large" name="shirt_size"><label for="large">Large</label><br>

      <label>shipping</label>
       <input type="checkbox" id="newsletter" value="subscribe" 
name="user_interest"><label class="newsletter" for="shipping">Shipping</label><br>
       <input type="checkbox" id="newsletter" value="subscribe" 
name="user_interest"><label class="newsletter" for="shipping">Shipping</label>






      <button type="submit">Place Order</button>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Luis Onate
Luis Onate
13,222 Points
Luis Onate
Luis Onate
13,222 Points

Hey Jayson,

Let's walk through everything. The first thing you want to do is make sure that you have one checkbox input with ID of "shipping" and a value of "fast_shipping."

<input type="checkbox" id="shipping" value="fast_shipping">

Then, add another checkbox input with an ID of "newsletter" and value of "subscribe."

<input type="checkbox" id="newsletter" value="subscribe">

The last thing, is that for each input, you want to have a label. A label matches up with an input by having the "for" attribute the same as the inputs "id" attribute.

<input type="checkbox" id="shipping" value="fast_shipping">
<label for="shipping">Fast Shipping</label><br>

<input type="checkbox" id="newsletter" value="subscribe">
<label for="newsletter">Subscribe to Newsletter</label><br>

Note how the "for" in each label is the same as the "id" of the input it goes with. This is what connects them to each other and makes a particular label element match up with an input element. Does that make sense?