Tell us what’s happening:
I have managed to pass step 33 in Building a Registration form, but I don’t understand why this version of code has been accepted.
The task is:
The textarea
element acts like an input
element of type text
, but comes with the added benefit of being able to receive multi-line text, and an initial number of text rows and columns.
To allow users to register with a bio, add a label
with the text Provide a bio:
followed by a textarea
element, which requires a closing tag.
The code that has been accepted is:
<label>Provide a bio:
<textarea> <type="text" required> </textarea>
</label>
What I don’t understand is why I have had to put type=“text” required as a separate tag and not included with the textarea tag like so
<textarea type="text" required>
Can anyone explain this?
Thanks,
Sophie
**Your code so far**
\ file: <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Registration Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Registration Form</h1>
<p>Please fill out this form with the required information</p>
<form action='https://register-demo.freecodecamp.org'>
<fieldset>
<label>Enter Your First Name: <input type="text" required /></label>
<label>Enter Your Last Name: <input type="text" required /></label>
<label>Enter Your Email: <input type="email" required /></label>
<label>Create a New Password: <input type="password" pattern="[a-z0-5]{8,}" required /></label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Personal Account</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Business Account</label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" required /> I accept the <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terms-of-service/">terms and conditions</a>
</label>
</fieldset>
<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 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>Provide a bio:
<textarea></textarea>
</label>
</fieldset>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Registration Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Registration Form</h1>
<p>Please fill out this form with the required information</p>
<form action='https://register-demo.freecodecamp.org'>
<fieldset>
<label>Enter Your First Name: <input type="text" required /></label>
<label>Enter Your Last Name: <input type="text" required /></label>
<label>Enter Your Email: <input type="email" required /></label>
<label>Create a New Password: <input type="password" pattern="[a-z0-5]{8,}" required /></label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Personal Account</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Business Account</label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" required /> I accept the <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terms-of-service/">terms and conditions</a>
</label>
</fieldset>
<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 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>Provide a bio:
<textarea></textarea>
</label>
</fieldset>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
\ file: body {
width: 100%;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
background-color: #1b1b32;
color: #f5f6f7;
}
label {
display: block;
margin: 0.5rem 0;
}
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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36 Edg/101.0.1210.47
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