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Andre Chavira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,556 PointsAm i suppose to retrieve it in a prior var or withing the total var?? i tried both parsefloat(width) and parseln(width).
I also tried using parsefloat('190px') and parseln('190px') by making a prior var to set the with var ready to use in the last var on the page. I'm honestly a bit confused, could somebody please give me a hand?
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var width = parselnt('190px');
var totalWidth = width * numOfDivs;
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 PointsI think that this challenge's goal is to reinforce that parseInt() will return the integer portion of a string if it is at the beginning of the string like the '190px'.
Try something like
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var totalWidth = parseInt(width) * numOfDivs;
FYI - The browser console is your friend. MDN parseInt()
Andre Chavira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,556 PointsThank you yes i had tried that but i would still get an error alert, however i managed to get it to work by adding the parseInt to the numOfDivs aswell, i didnt think i needed to do that because it wasn't specified in the instructions but it worked which surprised me.
Andre Chavira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,556 PointsAndre Chavira
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,556 Pointsparselnt*