 <p>You have missed <code>name</code> in select and input:</p> <pre><code> &lt;select id="tdarea" name="tdarea"&gt; &lt;option value="a" selected="selected"&gt;Area A&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="b"&gt;Area B&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="c"&gt;Area C&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input required type="text" id="name" name="name"/&gt; </code></pre>