Select menus in Bootsrap - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Create a Bootstrap Select Menu

📖 Scenario: You are building a simple web form for a small event registration. You want to add a dropdown menu so users can select their preferred event session.

🎯 Goal: Build a Bootstrap styled select menu with three session options inside a form.

📋 What You'll Learn

Use Bootstrap 5 classes for styling the select menu

Create a select menu with the id sessionSelect

Include exactly three options: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening

Wrap the select menu inside a form element

Add a label for the select menu with the text Select Session and link it properly using for attribute

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Select menus are common in web forms for letting users pick one option from a list, such as choosing a session, country, or category.

💼 Career

Knowing how to build accessible and styled select menus with Bootstrap is a key skill for front-end web developers working on user-friendly forms.

1

Create the basic HTML form and select menu

Write the HTML code to create a form element containing a select menu with the id sessionSelect. Inside the select menu, add three option elements with the exact text: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening.

Bootsrap

Need a hint?

Start by writing a form tag. Inside it, add a select tag with the id sessionSelect. Then add three option tags with the session names.

2

Add a label for the select menu

Add a label element above the select menu with the text Select Session. Make sure the label's for attribute matches the select menu's id sessionSelect.

Bootsrap

  
  
    Morning
    Afternoon
    Evening
  

Need a hint?

Use a label tag with the for attribute set to sessionSelect. Put the text Select Session inside the label.

3

Add Bootstrap classes to style the select menu

Add the Bootstrap class form-select to the select element to style it as a Bootstrap select menu.

Bootsrap

  Select Session
  
    Morning
    Afternoon
    Evening
  

Need a hint?

Add class="form-select" inside the select tag to apply Bootstrap styling.

4

Add Bootstrap container and ensure accessibility

Wrap the entire form inside a div with the Bootstrap class container to center it on the page. Also, add the attribute aria-label="Session selection" to the select element for accessibility.

Bootsrap

  
    Select Session
    
      Morning
      Afternoon
      Evening
    
  

Need a hint?

Wrap the form in a div with class container. Add aria-label="Session selection" to the select tag for screen readers.