Don’t delete anything that was already there. I would reset the step to get the original HTML back.
The only thing you want to do is add the a tags to turn the image into a link. You basically did this correctly. You just deleted other things that you shouldn’t have.
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/cat-photo-app/relaxing-cat.jpg" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back.">
The above is what is provided at the beginning of this step.
To pass the step, add the opening and closing anchors , as you did in the code for step 12, around the two words cat photos
Here is a great article from the FCC News category on how to turn images and text into links. It has good examples and is authored by one of the leaders.