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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

Ginger Williams
Ginger Williams
6,409 Points
Posted by Ginger Williams
Ginger Williams
6,409 Points

How do you log each iteration of workers in the id?

I am trying to simply list the employees and their titles in an employee-list container. It iterates through but only writes the last one to the dom.

</code> var x = new XMLHttpRequest(); x.onreadystatechange = function(){ if(x.readyState === 4){ var employees = JSON.parse(x.responseText);

    for(var i=0; i<employees.length; i++ ){
             var name = employees[i].name;
             var title = employees[i].title;

             //does not list each iteration
            document.getElementById('employee-list').innerHTML = name + title;

            //lists each iteration
           console.log(name+title);
        }
}

} x.open('GET', 'data/employees.json'); x.send(); </code>

1 Answer

jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points
jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points 
  document.getElementById('employee-list').innerHTML = name + title;

this line overwrites the content every time, so only the last iteration of the loop will show. Try something like this:

  document.getElementById('employee-list').innerHTML += name + title;
Ginger Williams
Ginger Williams
6,409 Points
Ginger Williams
Ginger Williams
6,409 Points

I didn't know that was allowed =D Thanks!