# Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 2

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958>\
**Category:** Curriculum Help\
**Tags:** css, html\
**Created:** [July 10, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958 "2023-07-10T20:31:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![akintadeabdullah15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@akintadeabdullah15](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/akintadeabdullah15)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958/1 "2023-07-10T20:31:46Z")

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**Tell us what’s happening:**  
Describe your issue in detail here.

**Your code so far**

```html

<!-- User Editable Region -->

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en">

<!-- User Editable Region -->

```

**Your browser information:**

User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.67`

**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)**
>
> Learn to Code — For Free

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**Author:** ![akintadeabdullah15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@akintadeabdullah15](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/akintadeabdullah15)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958/2 "2023-07-10T20:32:31Z")

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The code is correct and it’s not going through

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**Author:** ![bbsmooth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/bbsmooth/32/203556_2.png) [@bbsmooth](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/bbsmooth)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958/3 "2023-07-10T20:33:07Z")

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`html` elements have both an opening and closing tag because you can put other elements inside of them.

Isn’t the hint basically telling you this?

“Hint: Your `html` element should have a closing tag.”

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/original/3X/e/1/e1c433102e34b46dfaa3e15d13ab9a514b127078.svg) [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-2/621958/4 "2024-01-09T08:33:55Z")

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Closed on January 9, 2024, 8:33am UTC

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