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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) AJAX Concepts Finish the AJAX Request

Posted by anthony woods
anthony woods
8,208 Points

The footer text wasn't set correctly! Is the 'onreadystatechange' handler still set up correctly? this is the error i

that is the error i keep getting

app.js 
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if (request.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
    document.getElementById("footer").innerHTML = request.responseText;
  }
};
request.open("GET", "footer.html");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>AJAX with JavaScript</title>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="main">
    <h1>AJAX!</h1>
  </div>
  <div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Johnny Whitfield
Johnny Whitfield
14,024 Points
Johnny Whitfield
Johnny Whitfield
14,024 Points

Try single quotes.

Here's my code for the challenge:

var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); request.onreadystatechange = function () { if (request.readyState === 4) { document.getElementById("footer").innerHTML = request.responseText; } };

request.open('GET', 'footer.html');