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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

Mohamoud Dandan
Mohamoud Dandan
7,133 Points
Posted by Mohamoud Dandan
Mohamoud Dandan
7,133 Points

Why is my list of employees not populating?

please i need your help i do not know where is my error and here is my code var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){ if(xhr.readyState === 4) { var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText); var statusHTML = '<ul class="bulleted">' for (var i=0; i<employees.lenght; i += 1) { if (employees[i].inoffice === true) { statusHTML += '<li class="in">'; }else{ statusHTML +='<li class="out">'; } statusHTML += employess[i].name; statusHTML +='</li>'; } statusHTML += '</ul>'; document.getElementById('employeeList').innerHTML = statusHTML; } };

xhr.open('GET', 'data/employees.json'); xhr.send();

Chris Mason
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Chris Mason
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 24,526 Points

Hi Mahamoud - Happy to help, but first could you display your code using the Markdown Cheatsheet (see link below) so that's formatted in a way for people to easily read?

Mohamoud Dandan
Mohamoud Dandan
7,133 Points
Mohamoud Dandan
Mohamoud Dandan
7,133 Points

thank you guys I fixed the issue thank you all !!