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Posted by Shira Lotan
Shira Lotan
3,040 Points

Use Ajax on local file

I have a file named homepage.js which contain an Ajax request and append info to the page. I have a main.js file and here I want to create an Ajax request to the homepage.js. Is it possible? My local path (of homepage.js) starts with file:// and it looks like its not valid. Any solution for this? $( document ).ready(function() {

$.ajax({
    url: 'file:///Users/shiralotan/Desktop/Project%20BTC/homepage.js',

    success: function(resualt){
        $("#coinsDiv").html(resualt)
    }
})

})

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points
Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points

Can you share the rest of the code for the project, either on GitHub or a Treehouse workspace snapshot? FYI, it's good practice to develop your website by serving up your with a local development server like http-server rather than viewing them in the file system (file://).

What's the goal here? What is in homepage.js that you want to fetch with an AJAX request? Could you just load the script for homepage.js along with the other scripts at the beginning when the page loads?