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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

syntax error: what's wrong in my code?

I follow the lesson in my workspace and this is my code:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
    var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
    var statusHTML = '<ul class="bulleted">';

    for (var i=0, i<employees.lenght, i += 1) {
      if (employees[i].inoffice === true) {
         statusHTML += '<li class="in">';
      } else {
      statusHTML += '<li class="out">';
      }
      statusHTML += employees[i].name;
      statusHTML += '</li>';
      }

     statusHTML += '</ul>';

     document.getElementById("employeeList").innerHTML = statusHTML;
   }

};

xhr.open("GET", "data/employees.json");
xhr.send();

But when I launch the preview it dowsn't work. Why? Can't find the error

Thanks

3 Answers

You've actually got two small errors on that same line. There's the typo in length, but you also need to use ; instead of commas in your for expression.

for (var i=0; i<employees.length; i += 1) { // fixed length typo, fixed syntax error - change ',' to ';'
  // your code here 
}

That should do it, it's working for me now. Let me know if you're still having issues after those two though! Happy coding! :)

what a stupid error, thanks :)

(employees.lenght) should be (employees.length)

Right. I fix this now but it doesn't work yet

Giovanni, on which line do you get the error? Is it with the send method?