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JavaScript

Posted by Mike Burnett
Mike Burnett
8,429 Points

AJAX Stage 2, Challenge 4: innerHTML

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to set the HTML inside the #sidebar div to the server's response.

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
    xhr.status;
  }
  document.getElementById('sidebar').innerHTML=xhr.responseText;
};



xhr.open('GET', 'sidebar.html');
xhr.send();

2 Answers

Steven Byington
Steven Byington
13,584 Points

It looks like you have your innerHTML outside of your if statement. Should be:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
    xhr.status;
    document.getElementById('sidebar').innerHTML=xhr.responseText;
  }
};



xhr.open('GET', 'sidebar.html');
xhr.send();
Mike Burnett
Mike Burnett
8,429 Points
Mike Burnett
Mike Burnett
8,429 Points

Aha! Thank you, Steven.