Check Radio Buttons n Checkboxes by Default

HTML-CSS
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Hi everyone, I’m trying to make the first radio button “checked” and then the first label input checked and I’m not doing something right, can someone give me a hint? The hint button isn’t working for me when i click it

Your code so far

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: Lobster, Monospace;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: Monospace;
  }

  .thick-green-border {
    border-color: green;
    border-width: 10px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-radius: 50%;
  }

  .smaller-image {
    width: 100px;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>

<p>Click here for <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img class="smaller-image thick-green-border" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back. " src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat"></a>

<p>Things cats love:</p>
<ul>
  <li>cat nip</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="/submit-cat-photo">
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> checked</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality">
    checked</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label>
  <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Your browser information:

Your Browser User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SAMSUNG SM-G930T Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/6.4 Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/check-radio-buttons-and-checkboxes-by-default

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To do this, just add the word “checked” to the inside of an input element. For example:
<input type="radio" name="test-name" checked>

It doesn’t look like you’re adding the checked inside of the input element

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3

I just want to add some references about <input> and the checked attribute complementing gebulmer’s answer.
MDN Web Docs "<input>"
W3schools “checked attribute”

4

Add the attribute checked="checked" into your input. Or you can simply add the word checked :slight_smile:

5

I just put the word checked after where it says input type=

6

Thank you, got it figured out a lil bit ago