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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Create a Select Menu

Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points
Posted by Marie Jeffries
Marie Jeffries
2,972 Points

What am I doing wrong?

I can't figure out what I did wrong

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>
      <select id="color" name="shirt_color">
        <optgroup label="Shirt_Color">
          <option value="red">red</option>
          <option value="yellow">yellow</option>
          <option value="orange">orange</option>
          <option value="green">green</option>
          <option value="blue">blue</option>
          <option value="purple">purple</option>
        </optgroup>
      </select>

    </form>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
232,149 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
232,149 Points

The instructions for task 3 say "Add a label element to the select menu with the text "Shirt Color:"", but it looks like you've added an optgroup element (with a label attribute) instead of a label element.