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Posted by Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Help!

I keep getting this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token var 

var x1 = new XMLHttpRequest();
x1.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if(x1.readyState === 4 && x1.status === 200) {
    var room = JSON.parse(x.responseText);
    var HTML = '<ul class="rooms">';
    for var o=0; i<room.length; o += 1) {
      if(room[o].available === true) {
          HTML += '<li class="empty">';
      } else {
        HTML += '<li class="full">';
      }
      HTML += room[o].room;
      HTML += '</li>';
     }
      HTML += '</ul>';
      document.getElementById('roomList').innerHTML = HTML;
  }
};
x1.open('GET', '../data/rooms.json');
x1.send();

2 Answers

Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
18,033 Points
Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
18,033 Points

It looks like you are missing the opening "(" on your for loop. Try:

var x1 = new XMLHttpRequest();
x1.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if(x1.readyState === 4 && x1.status === 200) {
    var room = JSON.parse(x.responseText);
    var HTML = '<ul class="rooms">';
    for (var o=0; i<room.length; o += 1) {
      if(room[o].available === true) {
          HTML += '<li class="empty">';
      } else {
        HTML += '<li class="full">';
      }
      HTML += room[o].room;
      HTML += '</li>';
     }
      HTML += '</ul>';
      document.getElementById('roomList').innerHTML = HTML;
  }
};
x1.open('GET', '../data/rooms.json');
x1.send();
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Thanks, it is all fixed now :).