Build an fCC Authors Page - Step 8

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

Can somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>freeCodeCamp News Author Page</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1 class="title">freeCodeCamp News Author Page</h1>

    <main>
      <div id="author-container"></div>
      <button class="btn" id="load-more-btn">Load More Authors</button>
    </main>

    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

:root {
  --main-bg-color: #1b1b32;
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --dark-purple: #5a01a7;
  --golden-yellow: #feac32;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--main-bg-color);
  text-align: center;
}

.title {
  color: var(--light-grey);
  margin: 20px 0;
}

#author-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: center;
}

.user-card {
  border-radius: 15px;
  width: 300px;
  height: 350px;
  background-color: var(--light-grey);
  margin: 20px;
}

.user-img {
  width: 150px;
  height: 150px;
  object-fit: cover;
}

.purple-divider {
  background-color: var(--dark-purple);
  width: 100%;
  height: 15px;
}

.author-name {
  margin: 10px;
}

.bio {
  margin: 20px;
}

.error-msg {
  color: var(--light-grey);
}

.btn {
  cursor: pointer;
  width: 200px;
  margin: 10px;
  color: var(--main-bg-color);
  font-size: 14px;
  background-color: var(--golden-yellow);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#fecc4c, #ffac33);
  border-color: var(--golden-yellow);
  border-width: 3px;
}

/* file: script.js */
const authorContainer = document.getElementById('author-container');
const loadMoreBtn = document.getElementById('load-more-btn');

let startingIndex = 0;
let endingIndex = 8;
let authorDataArr = [];

fetch('https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/news-author-page/authors.json')
  .then((res) => res.json())
  .then((data) => {
    console.log(data);   
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`There was an error: ${err}`);
  });


// User Editable Region

function displayAuthors(authors) {
  for (author of authors) {
    authorContainer.innerHTML += `
    <div id="${index}" class="user-card">
    <h2 class="author-name">${author}</h2> 
    </div>
    `
  }
}

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build an fCC Authors Page - Step 8

2

Try changing your const variables, they usually wont work with the same name.

3

where are you getting index from? I don’t see it being defined

4

Can you please elaborate?

5

It was in the problem statement. Like how the code should look like

6

you are still missing the index variable, you need to create it before being able to use it, for that reason the for of loop is maybe the worst choice you can make as it doesn’t give the index of the element in the array

7

Const var and getElementById 'var' will not work, on the other hand var1 for the variable would.

8

Even if you did manually manage an index with a for…of loop.

  1. The author variable has to be declared.

  2. The author variable is an object. Log it out inside the loop.