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18. Add Placeholder Text to a Text Field

Placeholder text is what is displayed in your input element before your user has inputted anything.

You can create placeholder text like so:

<input type="text" placeholder="this is placeholder text">

Note: Remember that input elements are self-closing.

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Challenge

Set the placeholder value of your text input to cat photo URL.

• You should add a placeholder attribute to the existing text input element
• You should set the value of your placeholder attribute to cat photo URL
• The finished input element should not have a closing tag
• The finished input element should have valid syntax

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