Question

Visual Studio is objecting to the script below and returns a message that says “Expecting More Source Characters”. This I assume is the reason this script won’t fire on the page.

Usually when I get this message in VS it means I forgot a semi colon. However I don’t think that is the case this time. What could be causing this error?

jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
var Category = "animals";
var BaseURL = "http://localhost:61741/VocabGame/play?cat=";
var URL = BaseURL + Category;

    $.getJSON(URL, {
        tags: "Pinyin",
        tagmode: "any",
        format: "json"
    },
    function (data) {
    $('#ChoiceA').append = data.nouns[0].Pinyin;
    $('#ChoiceB').append = data.nouns[1].Pinyin;
    });

Answer 1

I think you’re missing the closing }) and also have a problem with your .append() lines. Try this:

jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
    var Category = "animals";
    var BaseURL = "http://localhost:61741/VocabGame/play?cat=";
    var URL = BaseURL + Category;

    $.getJSON(URL, {
        tags: "Pinyin",
        tagmode: "any",
        format: "json"
    }, function (data) {
        $('#ChoiceA').append(data.nouns[0].Pinyin);
        $('#ChoiceB').append(data.nouns[1].Pinyin);
    });
});