Make sure your form element has well-formed open and close tags

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


<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"></form>
</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Infinix_X521 Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.109 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-html-and-html5/create-a-form-element

2

In this case, the well formed form tag seems to be this:

<form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL">
</form>
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3

The c after placeholder =" is for what?

4

I don’t know what you mean.

The c is a part of “cat photo URL” placeholder.

5

This is already solved. Thanks everyone

6

[quote=“Anniemikel, post:1, topic:201863”]
<form
[/quote]but still its not working

7

this is an outdated answer, if you copy and paste this, it will not work.

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