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HTML

Posted by Brent Boles
Brent Boles
1,738 Points

html mastery task 7 of 8

Asking me to "Set that text input to contain "Hello World"" Not exactly sure what they want. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

6 Answers

Ross King
Ross King
20,704 Points
Ross King
Ross King
20,704 Points

Hi Brent,

Below is the answer. The text input is assigning a value to the form input.

Hope this helps!

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML Mastery Challenge</title> </head> <body> <h1>HTML Mastery Challenge</h1>

<!-- Write your code below -->
    <div>
  <h2>Shopping List</h2>
    <ol>
      <li></li>
      <li></li>
      <li></li>
  </ol>
  <p>Add a paragraph tag that has some text inside of it <strong>bolded</strong></p>
</div>

<form action="#">
  <input type="text" value="Hello World"> <!--Set that text input to contain "Hello World"-->
</form>

</body> </html>

Gary Lange
Gary Lange
2,774 Points

Thanks for this—I couldn't figure out exactly what they wanted either. I kept throwing more and more code at it, got frustrated, came here and....duh. Simple. Thanks again.

Mark Dohnt
Mark Dohnt
13,275 Points
Mark Dohnt
Mark Dohnt
13,275 Points

<form> <input type="text" value="Hello World"> </form>

For "text", "password", and "hidden" - it defines the initial (default) value of the input field.

Gary Mann
Gary Mann
8,639 Points
Gary Mann
Gary Mann
8,639 Points

They're looking for you to set it up so that the input text box has the words "Hello World" in it before the user inputs anything.

w3schools.org

An attribute you might use to accomplish a similar effect that isn't covered here: placeholder attribute: w3schools.org

tetay liu
PLUS
tetay liu
Courses Plus Student 5,975 Points
tetay liu
tetay liu
Courses Plus Student 5,975 Points

the input tag has many type ,such as type="text",type="hidden",type="password",maybe you can try it and sometimes when you set a input tag ,you also have to give it a value, so you will see the input tag and got a value called "hello world"

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You are probably look for the value attribute. The placeholder attribute does something similar.

http://www.htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/input/

James McGuire
James McGuire
3,272 Points
James McGuire
James McGuire
3,272 Points

Here is the answer for 7 of 8. under <form> <input type="text"name="Hello World" value="Hello World"> </form>