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JavaScript Displaying the Content

Posted by Kinkaid Nolen
Kinkaid Nolen
4,859 Points

Why does he have to use data.message in this video instead of just data?

Why does he have to target the message property?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

The API delivers a "data" object containing multiple attributes. The "message" attribute contains the URL of the image to be displayed, which is selected by this code and passed to the function to format the output.