Reputation: 97
in my while
loop I was hoping it will keep prompting the user for entry unless I break
out of the loop. However, once I get into my if
block it wont to peform printToScreen(message)
function unless I terminate the code.
Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I am expecting it to print message before continuing to prompt. how can I fix this?
let message;
let search;
function printToScreen(message){
let outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}
function promptUser (){
search = prompt("Enter student name");
return search;
}
function searchStudent(){
while(true){
search =promptUser();
for(let i = 0; i<students.length; i++){
if(search.toLowerCase() === students[i].name.toLowerCase())
{
let student = students[i];
message = `<h4>Student: ${student.name}</h4>`;
message += `<p> Track: ${student.track}
<br> Achievements:${student.achievements}
<br> Points: ${student.points}
</p>`;
printToScreen(message);
}
else if( search ===null || search.toLowerCase() === 'quit'){
message = `<p>Thanks.Goodbye! </p>`;
printToScreen(message);
break;
}
else{
message = `<p> Student ${search} does not exist. Try Again!</p>`;
printToScreen(message);
}
}
}
}
searchStudent();
Upvotes: 0
Views: 49
Reputation: 624
That's because the browser won't redraw the page while it is still computing some js. What you could do is replace your while(true) by a recursive call in a setTimeout:
function searchStudent(){
search =promptUser();
for(let i = 0; i<students.length; i++){
if(search.toLowerCase() === students[i].name.toLowerCase())
{
let student = students[i];
message = `<h4>Student: ${student.name}</h4>`;
message += `<p> Track: ${student.track}
<br> Achievements:${student.achievements}
<br> Points: ${student.points}
</p>`;
printToScreen(message);
}
else if( search ===null || search.toLowerCase() === 'quit'){
message = `<p>Thanks.Goodbye! </p>`;
printToScreen(message);
break;
}
else{
message = `<p> Student ${search} does not exist. Try Again!</p>`;
printToScreen(message);
}
}
setTimeout(function(){
searchStudent();
},5);
}
searchStudent();
Upvotes: 1