search record code challenge displays only the last name's record typed before 'quit'.

I am not sure why in the video it works, but still, the reason is that prompt method in the while loop stop browser before it finishes rendering new content on the page, if you look into the development tool, you will find HTML DOM actually has been changed. So the trick i do is using setTimeout pause the second prompt a little bit, so browser has time to finish the job.

var message,student,search;

function print(message) {
  var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
  outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}

function getStudentReport(student){
   var report = '<h2>Student: ' + student.name + '</h2>';
  report += '<p>Track: ' + student.track + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Points: ' + student.points + '</p>';
  report += '<p>Achievements: ' + student.achievements + '</p>';
  return report;
}

promptSearch();  //excute function first time;

function promptSearch(){
  var flag = true;
  while(flag){
     search = prompt("type a name:  (type 'quit' to exit)");
     if(search.toLowerCase() === 'quit' || search === null ){
       break;
      }
     for (var i = 0; i < students.length; i += 1) {
       student = students[i];
       if (student.name === search){
          message =  getStudentReport(student);
          print(message);
          flag = false;  //stop the while loop first
          setTimeout(promptSearch,100);  //wait 0.1 sec then prompt again
       }
     }
  }
}

I warned you about this in my answer to your previous question.

Did you see that answer? I'll rephrase it here to fit the current status of the code:

Your for loop replaces the value in message for each match, so only the name of the last student matched ("Trish") will be in the variable. Then the print function replaces the value of the output element, so even though you call it inside the loop, after the loop is done you'll only see the last student.

To alter this behavior, you'll need to change at least one of these so that it adds to the text instead of replacing it completely.

oh thats a good idea. Thanks. but wonder why in the lesson it works...

I had this issue on a previous loop challenge and on this challenge as well. I will enter in one of the student's name and the prompt reappears. Then I hit quit and the page prints out the student's info that I put during the last prompt.