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HTML HTML Forms HTML Mastery

Annika Noren
Annika Noren
26,930 Points
Posted by Annika Noren
Annika Noren
26,930 Points

Help with Challenge task 7 of 8 on basic HTML course

It says to "set that text input to contain the words Hello World!". The clue is telling me to try setting the value attribute.

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Could you please copy and paste the code you have here, so we might be able to better help you?

2 Answers

lukebiggerstaff
lukebiggerstaff
27,534 Points

Annika,

You're looking to add an attribute to the input tag. You do this by specifying them like id's and classes. Something like the following should work.

<input value="(place your text here)">

-Luke

Annika Noren
Annika Noren
26,930 Points
Annika Noren
Annika Noren
26,930 Points

Thank you Luke! That was the ticket! I appreciate the help.

Annika