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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Data Using Objects The Build an Object Challenge, Part 1

Peter Ajuzie
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Peter Ajuzie
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Peter Ajuzie
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,719 Points

Help with housekeeping (line breaks)

Please I need some help with adding line breaks after each student object when it prints to the screen.

          <p>
var students = [
  {Name: 'Peter', Track: 'Front End Development', Achievements: 22, Points: 1545},
  {Name: 'Paul', Track: 'iOS', Achievements: 19, Points: 1405},
  {Name: 'Jude', Track: 'Web Design', Achievements: 10, Points: 890},
  {Name: 'Lola', Track: 'Python', Achievements: 13, Points: 1032},
  {Name: 'Tola', Track: 'Android', Achievements: 15, Points: 1198}
]

// ENCAPSULATE THE LOOPS IN A FUNCTION
function studentList( students ) {
  for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
    for (var prop in students[i]) {
    student =  document.write('<p>'+ prop + ': ' + students[i][prop] + '</p>');
    }
  }
}

// Call the function and print the list to the screen
studentList(students);
</p>
          ```

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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By enclosing your outputs in paragraph tags you should get not only line breaks but some margin space between the lines. If you wanted only line breaks you could use <br> instead of paragraphs:

      document.write(prop + ': ' + students[i][prop] + '<br>');

And if you wanted an extra line in between students, you could write that in the outer loop:

  for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i++) {
    for (var prop in students[i]) {
      document.write(prop + ': ' + students[i][prop] + '<br>');
    }
    document.write('<br>');  // extra line between students
  }

Also, your script code seems to have some stray HTML (paragraph tags) at the beginning and end.

Peter Ajuzie
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Peter Ajuzie
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Peter Ajuzie
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Peter Ajuzie
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Thanks, Steven!

Per the stray html paragraph tags, I was still learning the markdown method for codes here lol. So forgot to delete them from the example html code from the cheatsheet.