Wikipedia Woes: Can Someone Troubleshoot My Ajax?

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I’m having issues with the Wikipedia Viewer challenge. I know my search value works, because window.open(searchUrl) opens the json that I want. I just can’t seem to get the json or do anything with it using ajax, and my callback function is never being called.

Can someone explain what’s going on here?

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Hi!
When your type text and click button or type enter it involve submit, your text value was sent to somewhere and your page refreshes. After refresh you see a new page without data like it was to load at first time.
You need to add preven refresh pages in your function setSearchVal()
event.preventDefault();

And then in function

function displayResults(data){
	$("#results").html(data);
}

you need extract text from data and pass it in html().
At that moment data is complex object not a string, that’s why it does not work.

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