Build an fCC Authors Page - Step 8

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I don’t why I failed this step

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}`);
  });

function displayAuthors(authors) {
  const authorContainer = document.getElementById("authorContainer");
  authorContainer.innerHTML = ""; 

  authors.forEach((author, index) => {
    authorContainer.innerHTML += `
      <div id="${index}" class="user-card">
        <h2 class="author-name">${author}</h2>
      </div>
    `;
  });
}

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) {
  const authorContainer = document.getElementById("authorContainer");
  authorContainer.innerHTML = ""; 

  authors.forEach((author, index) => {
    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

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you should carefully check this line

do you have an element with that id?, but also check line 2 of the js file, you may not need to select the element anyway

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I did this but the code still doesn’t pass

function displayAuthors(authors) {
  authorContainer.innerHTML = ""; 

  authors.forEach((author, index) => {
    authorContainer.innerHTML += `
      <div id="${index}" class="user-card">
        <h2 class="author-name">${author}</h2>
      </div>
    `;
  });
}
4

double check the parameters of the callback, add console.log({author, index}) inside it to verify their values if you want (and call the function, or open the browser console when running the tests to see what’s printed)

5

I have done that now but i keep seeing this: When the displayAuthors function is called with an author’s array, it should add a card for each author to the #authorContainer element.

6

what had you noticed you were doing wrong with the parameters? how did you fix that?

please post your updated code

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9

Good job in solving the challenge, I am going to have to delete the code tho, there is a policy to not share solution code on the forum

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