I have followed the directions for adding a default checked box to the first line of my form - line 42. So I don not see what my problem would be moving forward?
Note: thanks for the previous help as well, however, I do not understand the 3 back ticks for readability - apologies.
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> Indoor</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Loving</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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/601.7.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.2 Safari/601.7.7
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Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/check-radio-buttons-and-checkboxes-by-default