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Taylor Roberts
14,852 PointsMaking an AJAX request, using open method
I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I keep getting this error: Ajax error : You need to specify the request object and use the open() method on it.
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (request.readyState === 4) {
document.getElementById("footer").innerHTML = request.responseText;
request.open ("GET","footer.html");
}
};
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>AJAX with JavaScript</title>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<h1>AJAX!</h1>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 PointsHey Taylor Roberts , you must not include request.open ("GET","footer.html"); within the callback function .
It must come after the callback function .
Here is the actual code :
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (request.readyState === 4) {
document.getElementById("footer").innerHTML = request.responseText;
}
};
request.open ("GET","footer.html");
request.send();
Hope it helps :)