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JavaScript AJAX Basics Programming AJAX Processing JSON Data

My sidebar is not showing. Please help

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.length; i++) {
     if(employees[i].inoffice === true) {
       statusHTML += '<li class="in">';
     } else {
       statusHTML += '<li class="out">';
     }
     statusHTML += employees[i].name;
     statusHTML += '</li>';
   }
   statusHTML += '</ul>';
   document.getElementById.innerHTML = statusHTML;
 } 
};
xhr.open('GET', 'data/employees.json');
xhr.send();

2 Answers

Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points

Hey Junior,

Take a look at this line:
document.getElementById.innerHTML = statusHTML;
You're missing the parameter, you need to select the element with the id of "employeeList".

Ah! It's good now. Thank you very much for your help, Cameron!