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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) AJAX and APIs Create a callback function

David Elston
David Elston
8,112 Points
Posted by David Elston
David Elston
8,112 Points

I'm pretty stumped on pt 3, I'm not even sure what questions to ask, I'm just stuck. Any pointers?

I don't even know really what the question is asking but after rereading it a number of times, it's still very unclear to me what it is asking. Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to finish the function in weather.js

weather.js 
$(document).ready(function() {
  var weatherAPI = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather';
  var data = {
    q : "Portland,OR",
    units : "metric"
  };

  function showWeather(weatherReport) {
    $("#temperature").text() = $(this).main.temp;                           // <--- I'm Stuck here...
  };

});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>What's the Weather Like?</title>
  <script src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script src="weather.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="main">
    <h1>Current temperature: <span id="temperature"></span>&deg;</h1>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
6,796 Points

This assignment of the value to the span tag is incorrect.

$("#temperature").text()

$("#temperature") -- This selects the container. .text() -- inserts text into this container ; -- we're done so we end the line with a ; Example: $("#temperature").text("Hello World");

David Elston
David Elston
8,112 Points
David Elston
David Elston
8,112 Points

Thanks for the help.