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HTML HTML Forms HTML Mastery

SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points
Posted by SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points

How to set text input to contain the text "Hello World"?

hi guys in this course on forms in the code challenge we were asked to create an input form and "Set that text input to contain "Hello World". but I went back over the entire course looked at the transcript and there was nothing on how to do that. does anyone know?in the tip it said "Try setting the 'value' attribute on the text input.' I did like so <form><input type="text" value="Hello World" /></form>. but i'm still getting it wrong.

2 Answers

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

You need to set the value attribute for the input field. This just sets the initial value of the field.

<input type="text" value="Hello World">
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
Courses Plus Student 8,447 Points

I did that. However I think it was a browser problem. I kept trying the same thing over and over again cause i didn't understand why it didn't work, then it just did. thanks for your reply.

Anita Gaskins
Anita Gaskins
4,142 Points

Same here. The input type and value are correct and appear correctly in the browser view but is identified as incorrect.