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Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points
Posted by Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points

The browser does not recognise the JavaScript source in the index

I have the source in my indext.html file, however nothing is being logged to the console, not even a simple 'Hi' log.

<html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>AJAX Office Status Widget</title> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> <script src="js/widget.js"></script> </head>

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function () { if (xhr.readyState === 4) { console.log(xhr.responseText); } } xhr.open('GET', 'data/employees.json'); xhr.send();

console.log("Hi");

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

Can you post a snapshot of your workspace? It is the camera icon in the upper right corner. Here is one with your code pasted in that is functional logging to the console

3 Answers

benyoungblood
benyoungblood
10,062 Points
benyoungblood
benyoungblood
10,062 Points

You are really close. You just forgot to specify the directory properly in xhr.open();. Your file path needs ../ added prior to /data/employees.json'

The correction in your javascript file is below. It is working just fine now!

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
    if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
        console.log(xhr.responseText); 
    } 
}

xhr.open('GET', '../data/employees.json');
xhr.send();
console.log("Hi");
Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points
Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points

Hi team,

Thanks for looking into this.

Please see snapshot of the code below:

(https://w.trhou.se/51cbe1db0p)

Whats strange is that in this link above, the source code <script src="js/widget.js"></script> does not appear, but this is definitely in the index.html file. This line should be on line 8, but as you can see its blank. This is the same thing that is happening when I preview the code in the browser. Its as if its not able to ride that one line of code?

It must be related to this, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points
Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points

Hi team,

Thanks for looking into this.

Please see snapshot of the code below:

(https://w.trhou.se/51cbe1db0p)

Whats strange is that in this link above, the source code <script src="js/widget.js"></script> does not appear, but this is definitely in the index.html file. This line should be on line 8, but as you can see its blank. This is the same thing that is happening when I preview the code in the browser. Its as if its not able to ride that one line of code?

It must be related to this, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points
Greg McDonald
Greg McDonald
7,255 Points

Aaaaannnd its working now