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HTML HTML Forms Organizing Forms Add Labels

Posted by Kim Dallas
Kim Dallas
11,461 Points

i'm missing something on the textarea?

the text area label won't accept it before or after?

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">
      <label for="comment">comment</textarea>

      <button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Liam Clarke
Liam Clarke
19,938 Points

Hi Kim

You can put the label before or after the textarea if you want.

I think this is Treehouse being picky and failing because you have not written the label text exactly the same "Comment:", but for everything else, it looks fine.

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

    <form action="index.html" method="post">

      <!-- You can put the label above -->
      <label for="name">Name:</label>
      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">

      <!-- You can put the label below -->  
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"></textarea>
      <label for="comment">Comment:</label> 

      <button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>
    </form>

  </body>
</html>

Good Luck!

Haisam Elkewidy
Haisam Elkewidy
26,987 Points
Haisam Elkewidy
Haisam Elkewidy
26,987 Points

You need to put it before the textarea element. When you try to submit your code that way, you should get an error of some sort that clarifies that.

Kim Dallas
Kim Dallas
11,461 Points

I tried that too. But I'll try it again. I'm probably missing something