Opening the news articles

Question

I've almost finished pset8 Mashup but I'm a bit confused as to whether the news articles in the information windows are supposed to open when I click on a news article. I have added markers to my map for locations and when clicked, an infowindow opens with a list of bulleted news articles but I am unable to open any of the articles when I click on a news article link. Should I be able to open any news article when I click on its link in a given infowindow? Any clarification about this would be appreciated.

// display infowindow when clicked

    google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {

    showInfo(marker);

    // gets JSON for the news articles

    $.getJSON("articles.php", {geo: place.place_name})
    .done(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR )
    {

    if (data.length === 0)
    {
        showInfo(marker, "No news today :(");
    }

    else
        {
        var content = "<ul>";

        // template for ul

        var template = _.template("<li><a href'<%- link %>' target='_blank'>'<%- title %>'</a></li>");

        // iterate through the news

        for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)

        content+= template({link: data[i].link, title: data[i].title});

        // close list

        content+= "</ul>";

        // show infowindow

        showInfo(marker, content);
        }

    })

    .fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {

    // log error to browser's console

    console.log(errorThrown.toString());


    });

});

}

Answer 1

You're missing an equal sign = after href here:

var template = _.template("<li><a href'<%- link %>' target='_blank'>'<%- title %>'</a></li>");

should be:

var template = _.template("<li><a href='<%- link %>' target='_blank'>'<%- title %>'</a></li>");

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