Basic HTML and HTML5 - Check Radio Buttons and Checkboxes by Default

Tell us what’s happening:

It keep saying “ Your first radio button on your form should be checked by default.” But I did it. I don’t know why it is not getting approved.

Your code so far

<h2>CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
  <p>Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

  <a href="#"><img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/cat-photo-app/relaxing-cat.jpg" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>

  <p>Things cats love:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>catnip</li>
    <li>laser pointers</li>
    <li>lasagna</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
  <ol>
    <li>flea treatment</li>
    <li>thunder</li>
    <li>other cats</li>
  </ol>
  <form action="https://www.freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo">
    <label for="indoor"><input id="indoor" type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" value="indoor" checked> Indoor</label>
    <label for="outdoor"><input id="outdoor" type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" value="outdoor" checked> Outdoor</label><br>
    <label for="loving"><input id="loving" type="checkbox" name="personality" value="loving" checked> Loving</label>
    <label for="lazy"><input id="lazy" type="checkbox" name="personality" value="lazy" checked> Lazy</label>
    <label for="energetic"><input id="energetic" type="checkbox" name="personality" value="energetic" checked> Energetic</label><br>
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15

Challenge Information:

Basic HTML and HTML5 - Check Radio Buttons and Checkboxes by Default

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You currently have both of the radio buttons checked. Only one of them should have that have attribute.

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Thank you :blush:, it worked.

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