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HTML HTML Forms Organizing Forms Add Labels

Posted by Christian Beckett
Christian Beckett
11,123 Points

what exactly did I do wrong here?

i put email down for id then it ask for name I put name down for id then it ask for email what did I do wrong?

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="email" id="email" name="user_email">
      <label for="comment">comment:</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>
Anthony Blackford
Anthony Blackford
11,744 Points

Your structure is odd. You have a label for name, then an input for email, then a label for comment and an input for name, then a text area for comments, so it seems like you are ordering them wrong, and missing a label.

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Try spacing out your groups of labels and form fields so you can better see what's going on.

The label should immediately precede its matching form field, so the form field for the name should go directly under its label.

Christian Beckett
Christian Beckett
11,123 Points
Christian Beckett
Christian Beckett
11,123 Points

I think i get what you mean you believe that i should separate out the labels to make it to where its easier to read

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I believe it will help, yes! :-)

It's just about making code easier to read. The Code/browser interpreter doesn't care about it but doing this means you can read the elements and see what's missing, or not needed.

Christian Beckett
Christian Beckett
11,123 Points
Christian Beckett
Christian Beckett
11,123 Points

I see what you mean I will try to fix this and come back