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Reputation: 97

jQuery, Ajax: Unable to replace HTML

There's a button on a webpage. When clicked, it will replace paragraph (<p>) with header (<h1>).

However, I can't seem to make it worked:

index.html

<head>
    <script src="js/vendor/modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/libs/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="js/libs/jqueryui/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <script src="js/main.js"></script> 
</head>
<body>
    <section>
       <p id="replaceableP1">This text will be replaced </p>
       <button id="myButton">Get External Data</button>               
    </section>
</body>

main.js

$(document).ready(function(){

         $("#myButton").click(function(){             
             $.get("someInfo.html", function (data, status){
                  if (status === "success"){
                      $('#replaceableP1').html(data);
                  } else {
                      $("#replaceableP1").html("Problem reading data");
                  }

              });
         });
});

someInfo.html

<h1>This is external data!</h1>

The error generates on: $('#replaceableP1').html(data); in the main.js

If I replace data with "displayText", it will replace element index.html and displayText.

If I remove someInfo.html from the directory, the webpage won't even generate error message: Problem reading data.

What's wrong with the code?

EDIT: My bad, I forgot there is $("#myButton").click(function(){

Upvotes: 0

Views: 380

Answers (2)

Anand Chandwani
Anand Chandwani

Reputation: 124

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#myButton').click(function(){
     $.get("Info.html", function (data, status){
          if (status ==="success"){
              $('#replaceableP1').html(data);
          } else {
              $("#replaceableP1").html("Problem reading data");
          }

          });
     });
  });

try this and check if js files are loaded or not.

Upvotes: 0

WonderGrub
WonderGrub

Reputation: 396

There are two things that I see. The first is that you have an extra "});" in your main.js file. The second is that .html will replace the inner HTML of the selected element. If you want to replace the <p> with the <h1>, you would use .replaceWith.

For example,

$(document).ready(function() {

    $.get("someInfo.html", function(data, status) {
        if (status === "success") {
            $('#replaceableP1').replaceWith(data);
        } else {
            $("#replaceableP1").html("Problem reading data");
         }

        });
    });

Upvotes: 3

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