Help with Form- have tried everything

HTML-CSS
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


<h2>CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
<p>Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>

<p>Things cats love:</p>
<ul>
  <li>cat nip</li>
  <li>laser pointers</li>
  <li>lasagna</li>
</ul>
<p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
<ol>
  <li>flea treatment</li>
  <li>thunder</li>
  <li>other cats</li>
</ol>
<form>
<input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL">
<form action="/https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo">
</form> 
  

</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Create a Form Element

Link to the challenge:

2

Hey @annie2971!

Welcome to the forum!

Your form only needs an opening <form> and an end tag</form>.

The form should look like this

<form>
<input>
</form>

The url in the action is incorrect. Please copy it exactly from the lesson.

Hope that helps!

4

Hi
Thanks for your reply.
Can you be more specific to what is not right about my code?

5

As mentioned, the url is incorrect. It has an extra character in it.

Also you have two opening form tags <form> and one end form tag </form>

So my example above has one opening tag and one closing tag.

You need to structure like I did above.

Make sense?

6

Sorry, but I have triple checked and don’t see an extra character. If you are referring to the / before the url, I am following the example given.
And how about the ? You have not listed as an element…

Today is my very first time ever going over this :slight_smile:
Please bare with me!

7

I meant to say How about the * form action

8

This is the url I just copied from the lesson
https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo

Yours has a forward slash in it.

I copied it from here
Nest the existing input element inside a form element and assign "https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo" to the action attribute of the form element.

9

Let’s try this approach.

Using the correct url you will place this first

<form action="/https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo">

then this 

<input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL">

then this 

</form>
10

I followed the example they gave:
For example:

<form action="/url-where-you-want-to-submit-form-data"></form>

But have tried without it and still showing as wrong…

11

So that was just an example not the actual one you are supposed to use

12

It didn’t work…shouldn’t I start with ?

13

with < form > though?

14

Look back to a few posts ago where I laid it out for you. Just replace the url in the action.

15

How am I suppose to know that :slight_smile: :grinning: :grinning: :smiley:

16

it was in this last part of the instructions
inside a form element and assign "https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo" to the action attribute

17

It worked! So, I DON’T have to start with < form > always?
This is how it ended up:

When it said that it had to be nested into a form element, I assumed I had to start with < form > and end with < / form >

18

Hmmm I am a little confused. Can I see your code?

19

Screen Shot 2020-11-29 at 7.43.30 PM

Note that the section starts with form action NOT < form >

1 Like
20

Yeah that’s correct. What you had in your original code were two of these <form> and one of these </form>

If you look at your first answer versus the correct one you will see what I mean.

Hope that makes sense now.

21

This is still considered an opening tag it just happening to have the action attribute in it. So that’s what I mean by two opening tags.