Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) AJAX and APIs Create a callback function

Posted by Kristen Wolff
Kristen Wolff
9,550 Points

Ajax

I am stuck on this code challenge. I need to add the .main.temp, but every way I have tried to add it is not right? Can someone help me determine whee this should be?

weather.js 
$(document).ready(function() {
  var weatherAPI = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather';
  var data = {
    q : "Portland,OR",
    units : "metric"
  };
 function showWeather (weatherReport) {
    $("#temperature").text();    

;
 };
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>What's the Weather Like?</title>
  <script src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script src="weather.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="main">
    <h1>Current temperature: <span id="temperature"></span>&deg;</h1>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

If you don't pass a parameter into jQuery's .text() method, jQuery will return the current text in the selected element rather than replace the contents currently there. In this case you function is retrieving the value &deg, and doing nothing with it, considering nothing is returned. You need to retrieve the data your parameter will have, then access the properties that are available.

$(document).ready(function() {
  var weatherAPI = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather';
  var data = {
    q : "Portland,OR",
    units : "metric"
  };
  function showWeather(weatherReport){
    $("#temperature").text(weatherReport.main.temp);
  }
});