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It says my first option should be selected by default but I am unsure of the code that goes there.
Your code so far
<div class="controls">
<span>
<label for="entry-dropdown">Add food or exercise:</label>
<select id="entry-dropdown" name="options">
<option value="breakfast" id="breakfast">Breakfast</option>
<option value="lunch" id="lunch">Lunch</option>
<option value="dinner" id="dinner">Dinner</option>
<option value="snacks" id="snacks">Snacks</option>
<option value="exercise" id="exercise">Exercise</option>
</select>
<button type="button" id="add-entry">Add Entry</button>
</span>
</div>
<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
<title>Calorie Counter</title>
</head>
<body>
<main>
<h1>Calorie Counter</h1>
<div class="container">
<form id="calorie-counter">
<label for="budget">Budget</label>
<input
type="number"
min="0"
id="budget"
placeholder="Daily calorie budget"
required
/>
<fieldset id="breakfast">
<legend>Breakfast</legend>
<div class="input-container"></div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset id="lunch">
<legend>Lunch</legend>
<div class="input-container"></div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset id="dinner">
<legend>Dinner</legend>
<div class="input-container"></div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset id="snacks">
<legend>Snacks</legend>
<div class="input-container"></div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset id="exercise">
<legend>Exercise</legend>
<div class="input-container"></div>
</fieldset>
<!-- User Editable Region -->
<div class="controls">
<span>
<label for="entry-dropdown">Add food or exercise:</label>
<select id="entry-dropdown" name="options">
<option value="breakfast" id="breakfast">Breakfast</option>
<option value="lunch" id="lunch">Lunch</option>
<option value="dinner" id="dinner">Dinner</option>
<option value="snacks" id="snacks">Snacks</option>
<option value="exercise" id="exercise">Exercise</option>
</select>
<button type="button" id="add-entry">Add Entry</button>
</span>
</div>
<!-- User Editable Region -->
</form>
</div>
</main>
</body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
:root {
--light-grey: #f5f6f7;
--dark-blue: #0a0a23;
--fcc-blue: #1b1b32;
--light-yellow: #fecc4c;
--dark-yellow: #feac32;
--light-pink: #ffadad;
--dark-red: #850000;
--light-green: #acd157;
}
body {
font-family: "Lato", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
background-color: var(--fcc-blue);
color: var(--light-grey);
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
}
.container {
width: 90%;
max-width: 680px;
}
h1,
.container,
.output {
margin: 20px auto;
}
label,
legend {
font-weight: bold;
}
.input-container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
button {
outline: none;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: var(--light-yellow);
border: 2px solid var(--dark-yellow);
}
.clear {
background-color: var(--light-pink);
color: var(--dark-red);
border-color: var(--dark-red);
}
button,
input,
select {
min-height: 24px;
color: var(--dark-blue);
}
fieldset,
label,
button,
input,
select {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.output {
border: 2px solid var(--light-grey);
padding: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.hide {
display: none;
}
.output span {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.2em;
}
.surplus {
color: var(--light-green);
}
.deficit {
color: var(--light-pink);
}
/* file: script.js */
Your browser information:
User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Challenge Information:
Learn Form Validation by Building a Calorie Counter - Step 10
