Hi pals how do i complete this task ? "The finished input element should have valid syntax."

HTML-CSS
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how to go by this task “The finished input element should have valid syntax.”

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://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></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>
 <input type placeholder="cat photo URL">
</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-html-and-html5/add-placeholder-text-to-a-text-field/

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You seem to have accidentally removed the value of the type attribute. In the original challenge code, you are given this:
<input type="text">
Make sure to just add the placeholder attribute and not remove the existing code for the type attribute, and you should be fine!

Good luck! :slight_smile: