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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers Numbers and Strings

Nicholette Taylor
Nicholette Taylor
2,832 Points
Posted by Nicholette Taylor
Nicholette Taylor
2,832 Points

Bummer: Did you use the `var` keyword to create the `totalWidth` variable?

ummmm yes I did. wondering why this isn't working.

app.js 
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var widthNum=parseInt(width);
var totalWidth=widthNum * numOfDivs;
index.html 
<!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>

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

Eliminate the variable widthNum from your code. Sometimes you can do more than the challenge requests causing it to fail.

Nicholette Taylor
Nicholette Taylor
2,832 Points
Nicholette Taylor
Nicholette Taylor
2,832 Points

I had that before this and it was still erroring out. I'll try it again.