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**Category:** Curriculum Help\
**Tags:** css, html\
**Created:** [November 3, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496 "2022-11-03T03:49:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@augi94](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/augi94)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496/1 "2022-11-03T03:49:30Z")
The hint I’m receiving states " Your `html` element should have a closing tag."
the code i’ve written is:
Can someone please explain why it’s not being accepted and what I can do to advance?
**Your code so far**
```html
```
**Your browser information:**
User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0`
**Challenge:** Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 2
**Link to the challenge:**
> **[freeCodeCamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form/step-2)**
>
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**Author:**  [@skamat](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/skamat)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496/2 "2022-11-03T04:06:13Z")
So please put the closing html tag after this opening tag. Closing tags are written with a backslash before the tagname. Something like this ``.
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**Author:**  [@augi94](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/augi94)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496/3 "2022-11-04T16:12:26Z")
Thank you for your help. What I didn’t realize having taken a break from practicing was that closing tags aren’t just the \> but require \<\> **\** after the opening tag.
The solution I was looking for was:
A closing tag should look like this:
```auto
```
without any spaces. Space was included so code would appear in text.
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**Author:**  [@hbar1st](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/hbar1st)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496/4 "2022-11-04T16:13:54Z")
I’ve edited your code for readability. When you enter a code block into a forum post, please precede it with a separate line of three backticks and follow it with a separate line of three backticks to make it easier to read.
You can also use the “preformatted text” tool in the editor (``) to add backticks around text.
See [this post](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/forum-code-formatting/25574) to find the backtick on your keyboard.
**Note:** Backticks (`) are not single quotes (').
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/568496/5 "2023-05-06T04:14:23Z")
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