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Step 41
To give Campers an idea of what to put in their bio, the placeholder attribute is used. The placeholder accepts a text value, which is displayed until the user starts typing.
Give the textarea a placeholder of I like coding on the beach…
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 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>
<fieldset>
<label for="profile-picture">Upload a profile picture: <input id="profile-picture" type="file"/></label>
<label for="age">Input your age (years): <input id="age" type="number" min="13" max="120" /></label>
<label for="referrer">How did you hear about us?
<select id="referrer">
<option value="">(select one)</option>
<option value="1">freeCodeCamp News</option>
<option value="2">freeCodeCamp YouTube Channel</option>
<option value="3">freeCodeCamp Forum</option>
<option value="4">Other</option>
</select>
</label>
<label for="bio">Provide a bio:
<textarea rows="3" cols="30" placeholder="I like coding on the beach...."></textarea>
</label>
</fieldset>
<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>
<!-- 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;
}
Your browser information:
User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Challenge Information:
Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 41