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Jorge Velasco
13,773 PointsWhen Guil passed the method "generateHTML", how come he didn't need to pass data as the parameter?
I mostly understand the event that's taking place bellow, but how come in generateHTML he didn't need explicitly pass the data to generate the HTML?
btn.addEventListener('click', (event) => { getJSON(astrosUrl, (json /'json here represents the data returned from the getJSON method'/) => { json.people.map(astronaut => { getJSON(wikiUrl + astronaut.name, generateHTML); }); }) event.target.remove(); // removes the button from the page after completing the event });
This is how the generateHTML method is written for reference:
function generateHTML(data /'data is an optional parameter'/) {
const section = document.createElement('section');
peopleList.appendChild(section);
// Check if request returns a 'standard' page from Wiki
if (data.type === 'standard') {
section.innerHTML =
<img src=${data.thumbnail.source}>
<h2>${data.title}</h2>
<p>${data.description}</p>
<p>${data.extract}</p>
;
} else {
section.innerHTML =
<img src="img/profile.jpg" alt="ocean clouds seen from space">
<h2>${data.title}</h2>
<p>Results unavailable for ${data.title}</p>
${data.extract_html}
;
}
}
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,271 PointsWhen the method is invoked by getJSON, the data is passed to it at that time. You don't see that here because only the reference to the function is being passed for now and it is not actually called until later.