Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App - Step 12

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Tell us what’s happening:
I am having the hardest time trying to figure out what I am doing wrong

Your code so far

<html>
  <body>
    <h1>CatPhotoApp</h1>
    <main>
      <h2>Cat Photos</h2>
      <!-- TODO: Add link to cat photos -->
      <p> <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com".>Click here to view more cat photos.</p>
      <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com"></a>
      <img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/cat-photo-app/relaxing-cat.jpg" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back.">
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Learn HTML by Building a Cat Photo App - Step 12

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The instructions did not tell you to change this anchor element. I would put it back the way it was.

This is not a valid anchor element. If you reset the code, you can look at the valid anchor element that you finished on the last Step.

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ok I’ve reset the code. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong

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Notice a few things here:
1- your anchor tag is not closed.
2- the missing closed tag should go somewhere on this line that makes sense to the problem you are working on
3- the anchor tag only needs to go around the last two words of the paragraph not the whole thing.
4- the anchor opening tag has a lost period inside which is not supposed to be there

Try to go thru this list and see if you can make more progress…

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Once you reset the code you should try creating a valid anchor element inside of the p element.

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I don’t understand what I am doing wrong

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What did you try after you reset the code?

The entire correct anchor element you have should be duplicated to turn the words ‘cat photos’ in the p element into a link.

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 <p>Click here to view more cat photos.<a href="https://catphotos.com"></a></p>
      <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com"></a>
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So you again changed the second line right after resetting the code because you were not supposed to change the second line? That doesn’t make sense to me.

I would

  1. reset the code again

  2. touch absolutely nothing about the current anchor element

  3. add a duplicate anchor element inside of the p element, replacing the text ‘cat photos’

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I’ve edited your code for readability. When you enter a code block into a forum post, please precede it with a separate line of three backticks and follow it with a separate line of three backticks to make it easier to read.

You can also use the “preformatted text” tool in the editor (</>) to add backticks around text.

Pre-formatted-text

See this post to find the backtick on your keyboard.
Note: Backticks (`) are not single quotes (').

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still working on it !

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<p>Click here to view more cat photos.<a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com"></a></p>
      <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>
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  <p>Click here to view more cat photos.<a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com"></a></p>
  <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>
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Vs

These are not the same.

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I didn’t touch the second line

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 <p>Click here to view more cat photos.<a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a></p>
      <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>
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Closer. You have the text ‘cat photos’ twice. You should only have it once.

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<p>Click here to view more cat photos.<a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com"></a></p>
      <a href="https://freecatphotoapp.com">cat photos</a>
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…

Vs

These are not identical

… Maybe going back to code you know is wrong doesn’t make any sense?

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I would suggest you do this.

  • Restart.
  • Cut (or copy and delete) the a element.
  • Select the cat photo text in the p element and paste the a element in place of it.

Example:

<p>Visit the freeCodeCamp forum.</p>
<a href="https://forum.freecodecamp.org/">freeCodeCamp forum</a>

Becomes:

<p>Visit the <a href="https://forum.freecodecamp.org/">freeCodeCamp forum</a>.</p>
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