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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Text Input

Inside the form element, add an input with the type attribute set to the value "text". Don't add any other attributes ye

Inside the form element, add an input with the type attribute set to the value "text". Don't add any other attributes yet.

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html" method= "post" input type="text"
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The "form" and "input" tags are incomplete, so the "input" appears to be additional properties of the "form", instead of a separate element. A tag must start with "<" and end with ">".

Also the end tag for the form is missing.

yeah sorry about that I was falling asleep earlier from the previous video and missed some of the info. I got it now though, thanx alot! Working overnight is such a drag!!

<form action=index.html method=post >

<input type="text">

  </form>
Tom Nguyen
Tom Nguyen
33,500 Points

solution:

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html" method="post">
      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name"/>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>