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Ian Simpson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,509 PointsDifferent approach...?
I jumped the gun a little on this section and went ahead and wrote my callback without watching the whole video. Instead of using one variable to write the html I used createElement and the for loop like so...
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
const div = document.getElementById('employeeList');
const ul = document.createElement('ul');
ul.className = "bulleted";
div.appendChild(ul);
for (let i = 0; i < employees.length; i++) {
const li = document.createElement('li');
li.textContent = ${employees[i].name};
if (employees[i].inoffice) {
li.className = "in";
} else {
li.className = "out";
}
ul.appendChild(li);
}
}
It worked perfectly and I found this easier to understand. Is there a reason I shouldn't have done it this way?