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JavaScript AJAX Basics Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

Michael Rushton
Michael Rushton
7,126 Points
Posted by Michael Rushton
Michael Rushton
7,126 Points

closing the li tags

Can't you close the li tags inside the first statusHTML parts as well as creating them?

for example

statusHTML += '<li class="out"></li>';

why do we do it after the conditional statements?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

If you did that, the list item would be empty instead of containing the employee name.

As shown in the video, the conditional code just creates the opening tag. The common code adds the employee name and then creates the closing tag. You wouldn't want to replicate that code in each branch of the condition when it can be done in just one place.

You could, however, replace the entire contents of the loop with an assignment using a template literal with two replacement tokens and a ternary expression for the class name:

    statusHTML += `<li class="${employees[i].inoffice?'in':'out'}">${employees[i].name}</li>`;