Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 37

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Step 37
Submitting the form with an option selected would not send a useful value to the server. As such, each option needs to be given a value attribute. Without which, the text content of the option will be submitted to the server.

Give the first option a value of “”, and the subsequent option elements value attributes from 1 to 4.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Registration Form</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Registration Form</h1>
    <p>Please fill out this form with the required information</p>
    <form method="post" action='https://register-demo.freecodecamp.org'>
      <fieldset>
        <label for="first-name">Enter Your First Name: <input id="first-name" type="text" required /></label>
        <label for="last-name">Enter Your Last Name: <input id="last-name" type="text" required /></label>
        <label for="email">Enter Your Email: <input id="email" type="email" required /></label>
        <label for="new-password">Create a New Password: <input id="new-password" type="password" pattern="[a-z0-5]{8,}" required /></label>
      </fieldset>
      <fieldset>
        <legend>Account type (required)</legend>
        <label for="personal-account"><input id="personal-account" type="radio" name="account-type" checked/> Personal</label>
        <label for="business-account"><input id="business-account" type="radio" name="account-type" /> Business</label>
      </fieldset>

<!-- User Editable Region -->

      <fieldset>
        <label>Upload a profile picture: <input type="file" /></label>
        <label>Input your age (years): <input type="number" min="13" max="120" /></label>
        <label>How did you hear about us?
          <select>
            <option>"(select one)"</option>
            <option>freeCodeCamp News </option>
            <option>freeCodeCamp YouTube Channel </option>
            <option>freeCodeCamp Forum </option>
            <option>Other </option>
          </select>
        </label>
      </fieldset>

<!-- User Editable Region -->

      <label for="terms-and-conditions">
        <input id="terms-and-conditions" type="checkbox" required /> I accept the <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terms-of-service/">terms and conditions</a>
      </label>
      <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
body {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  margin: 0;
  background-color: #1b1b32;
  color: #f5f6f7;
}

label {
  display: block;
  margin: 0.5rem 0;
}

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Challenge Information:

Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 37

Give the first option a value of "" , and the subsequent option elements value attributes from 1 to 4 .
how did you add an attribute with the required value within an element.?

i dont understand the test, when i write a code like this <option " ">(select one)
its still telling me to give the first option a value of " " which i already did

you need to put in the attribute name, which is value

exapmle:

attribute="value"

you need value attribute with the required "value" within each option opening tag.

okay thank you, i tried this it actually worked

(select one) freeCodeCamp News freeCodeCamp YouTube Channel freeCodeCamp Forum Other
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