Your text input element should have the required attribute

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<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>
  <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL">
    <button type="submit">Submit</button> 
  <input type="text" required>
  <input type="submit">
  </form>
</main)

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36.

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

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my programme is not running.The help says that “Your text input element should have the required attribute.”

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Precisely. And your text input doesn’t have that attribute. Read about HTML Attributes for more help :slight_smile:

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Yes it doesn’t. They give you an example of how to use required in the instructions.

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if he knows or understood what to do,am sure he wouldn’t ask for help. if you know the answer, just help or give him an hint. its as simple as that.

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