I have a simple site that is getting a list of books from the Google Books API. I have a separate file called scripts.js that is getting all the book information (title, author, ISBN, link to the image).
I want to create a div for each book in a gallery style page, where there is a picture of the book and on top of the book is the Title, Author, and ISBN.
I've tried creating the DIV's in Javascript but I want there to be an h3, p, and img inside of each DIV and I can't seem to wrap my head around how I could do that in Javascript.
My HTML code for the gallery:
<div id="content">
<h2>My Bookshelf</h2>
<div class="book">
<!-- The book image is the background of the div -->
<h3 class="book-title">Title</h3>
<p class="book-isbn">ISBN: 000000</p>
<p class="book-author">Authors: ABC</p>
</div>
</div>
My Javascript code that cycles through the JSON file and returns the needed information.
// Returns an array with the book title, ISBN, author, bookmark icon, description, image
apiRequest.onreadystatechange = () => {
if (apiRequest.readyState === 4) {
const response = JSON.parse(apiRequest.response);
var bookList = response.items;
// Removes old search results before display new ones
bookSection.innerHTML = "";
for (let i = 0; i < bookList.length; i++) {
console.log(i);
var title = (bookList[i]["volumeInfo"]["title"]);
try {
var isbn = (bookList[i]["volumeInfo"]["industryIdentifiers"][0]["identifier"]);
} catch (TypeError) {
var isbn = "ISBN Not Available";
}
var author = (bookList[i]["volumeInfo"]["authors"]);
var description = (bookList[i]["description"]);
try {
var image = (bookList[i]["volumeInfo"]["imageLinks"]["thumbnail"]);
} catch (TypeError) {
var image = "img/unavailable.png";
}
}
}
}
You can use template literals to make your job easier.
You can do it like this:
var bookSection = `<div id="content">
<h2>My Bookshelf</h2>
<div class="book">
<!-- The book image is the background of the div -->
<h3 class="book-title">${titleVar}</h3>
<p class="book-isbn">ISBN: ${ISBNVar}</p>
<p class="book-author">Authors: ${AuthorsVar}</p>
</div>
</div>`;
Learn more about template literals from here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals