# Build a Job Application Form - Build a Job Application Form

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-job-application-form-build-a-job-application-form/741213>\
**Category:** Curriculum Help\
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-job-application-form-build-a-job-application-form/741213 "2025-03-28T00:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![guzyab12](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/guzyab12/32/381172_2.png) [@guzyab12](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/guzyab12)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-job-application-form-build-a-job-application-form/741213/1 "2025-03-28T00:32:26Z")

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### Tell us what’s happening:

This is my code:  
button:hover {  
background-color: lightblue;  
cursor: pointer;  
}

.radio-group input[type=“radio”]:checked {  
outline: 2px solid blue;  
background-color: lightblue;  
box-shadow: 0 0 5px blue;  
}

.radio-group input[type=“radio”]:checked + label {  
color: blue;  
font-weight: bold;  
}

And it’s giving me error:  
15. You should use the :checked pseudo-class on radio buttons to change the text color of the associated label when the option is selected.  
My mistake ?

### Your code so far

```html
<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Job Application Form</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
    <form>
        <input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Full Name" required>
        <input type="email" id="email" placeholder="Email" required>

        <select id="position" required>
            <option value="">Select Position</option>
            <option value="developer">Developer</option>
            <option value="designer">Designer</option>
        </select>

        <fieldset class="radio-group">
            <input type="radio" id="full-time" name="availability" value="full-time" required>
            <label for="full-time">Full-Time</label>

            <input type="radio" id="part-time" name="availability" value="part-time">
            <label for="part-time">Part-Time</label>
        </fieldset>

        <textarea id="message" placeholder="Enter your message" required></textarea>

        <button type="submit">Submit</button>
    </form>
</div>

</body>
</html>

```

```css
/* file: styles.css */

input:focus, textarea:focus {
    border-color: blue; 
    outline: none;
}

input:invalid, select:invalid, textarea:invalid {
    border-color: red;
}

input:valid, select:valid, textarea:valid {
    border-color: green;
}

button:hover {
    background-color: lightblue;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.radio-group input[type="radio"]:checked {
    outline: 2px solid blue; 
    background-color: lightblue; 
box-shadow: 0 0 5px blue;
}

.radio-group input[type="radio"]:checked + label {
    color: blue;
    font-weight: bold;
}

input:nth-child(1) {
    border-radius: 10px;
    background-color: #f8f8f8;
    padding: 8px;
}

```

### Your browser information:

User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`

### Challenge Information:

Build a Job Application Form - Build a Job Application Form  
[https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/lab-job-application-form/lab-job-application-form](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/lab-job-application-form/lab-job-application-form)

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**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-job-application-form-build-a-job-application-form/741213/2 "2025-03-28T01:35:58Z")

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Okay. Here’s the thing. When I run your code as written, it actually complains about hint

> You should use the `:checked` pseudo-class on `.radio-group input[type="radio"] ` to add a border color, background color and a box shadow when the radio button is selected.

One of these three things are missing from your current CSS code. Once you add it, the test will pass.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/original/3X/e/1/e1c433102e34b46dfaa3e15d13ab9a514b127078.svg) [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/build-a-job-application-form-build-a-job-application-form/741213/3 "2025-09-26T13:36:06Z")

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Closed on September 26, 2025, 1:36pm UTC

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