Learn Fetch and Promises by Building an fCC Authors Page - Step 28

Tell us what’s happening:

Describe your issue in detail here.

The requirement says:

Inside the .catch() , remove the console.error() and set the innerHTML of the authorContainer to a p element with the class error-msg and text There was an error loading the authors .

The error I’m getting:

Your p element should have the text There was an error loading the authors .

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) => {
    authorDataArr = data;
    displayAuthors(authorDataArr.slice(startingIndex, endingIndex));  
  })
  .catch((err) => {

// User Editable Region

 authorContainer.innerHTML = `<p class="error-msg">There was an error loading the authors.</p>`;

// User Editable Region

  });

const fetchMoreAuthors = () => {
  startingIndex += 8;
  endingIndex += 8;

  displayAuthors(authorDataArr.slice(startingIndex, endingIndex));
  if (authorDataArr.length <= endingIndex) {
    loadMoreBtn.disabled = true;
    loadMoreBtn.textContent = 'No more data to load';
  }
};

const displayAuthors = (authors) => {
  authors.forEach(({ author, image, url, bio }, index) => {
    authorContainer.innerHTML += `
    <div id="${index}" class="user-card">
      <h2 class="author-name">${author}</h2>
      <img class="user-img" src="${image}" alt="${author} avatar" />
      <div class="purple-divider"></div>
      <p class="bio">${bio.length > 50 ? bio.slice(0, 50) + '...' : bio}</p>
      <a class="author-link" href="${url}" target="_blank">${author} author page</a>
    </div>
  `;
  });
};

loadMoreBtn.addEventListener('click', fetchMoreAuthors);

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Learn Fetch and Promises by Building an fCC Authors Page - Step 28

You appear to have created this post without editing the template. Please edit your post to Tell us what’s happening in your own words.

The string in the error message:

Your string:

Can you spot the difference?

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