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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) jQuery and AJAX Add a callback

Posted by William Richardson
William Richardson
1,793 Points

Why isn't this working?

Why isn't this working?

$.get("footer.html", function(data){ $("#footer").select; $("#footer").html(data); });

app.js 
$.get("footer.html", function(data){
$("#footer").select;
$("#footer").html(data); 
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>AJAX with JavaScript</title>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="main">
    <h1>AJAX with jQuery</h1>
  </div>
  <div id="footer"></div>
  <script src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You've essentially completed the challenge, you just have an extra bit of code mixed in.

Just remove this line:

$("#footer").select;

You may have gotten confused when they said to "select the element with ID footer". They didn't actually want you to trigger the select event on it.