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Question

I have a login form; this is a part of my code:

<form method="post" action="login.php" >
     <label>Username</label>
     <input type="text" name="username"/>
       <br>
     <label>Password</label>
     <input type="password" name="password"/>
       <br>
     <div class="log"><a class="btn btn_red">Login</a></div>
</form>

What I expect is that this form redirect me to the "login.php" file, but it doesn't work. Where am I going wrong?

Thank u all.

Answer 1

You have an anchor (with no href attribute) and no button.

You need a submit button

 <div class="log"><button class="btn btn_red">Login</button></div>

Answer 2

Try this

<form method="post" action="login.php" id="form1">
        <label>Username</label>
        <input type="text" name="username"/>
          <br>
        <label>Password</label>
        <input type="password" name="password"/>
          <br>
        <div class="log"><button type="submit" class="btn btn_red" form="form1" value="Submit">Login</button></div>
</form>