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JavaScript

Posted by Benjamin Flores
Benjamin Flores
3,297 Points

Why doesn't my preview do anything?

I have the exact code shown, have looked it up and down for typos... nothing happens. I even did the next part where we check the console log and (index):16 XHR finished loading: GET "http://port-80-dgb2wcpndw.treehouse-app.com/sidebar.html". shows up like shown in the video but the page doesn't actually do anything..?

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,695 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,695 Points

I just clicked the button and got the output from sidebar.html. I saw some similar code that included a test of status, so something like

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
    if(xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
   document.getElementById('ajax').innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
//console.log('i is here:'+xhr.responseText);
    }
};
xhr.open('GET', 'sidebar.html');
xhr.send();