I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong.
This is my HTML/JS:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="handlebars-v1.1.2.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var jsonString = null;
$.getJSON("data.json", function(data) {
jsonString = data;
});
var source = $("#items").html();
var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
$("ul").append(template(jsonString));
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script id="items" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
<span>{{Title}} : {{CSCI}}</span>
</script>
<ul>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
And this is my data.json file:
{
"Title":"I am a thing",
"CSCI":" "
}
The only output I get is the ":" so it's doing something properly. The console shows nothing (as in completely empty so I assume there's no syntactical errors anywhere?).
I don't like posting questions like this as it's usually because of a small mistake on my part somewhere, but I know you guys love this stuff ;)
As getJSON is an async function call you need to compile Handlebars in success callback function
$(document).ready(function(){
var jsonString = null;
$.getJSON("data.json", function(data) {
jsonString = data;
var source = $("#items").html();
var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
$("ul").append(template(jsonString));
});
});
getJSON is async, and so
var source = $("#items").html();
var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
$("ul").append(template(jsonString));
should all be inside of the callback as well