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JavaScript

Posted by Anthony Matar
Anthony Matar
1,177 Points

How to add randomly generated text

Hi,

So I am playing around with a website based off of a tutorial with Jquery I've followed on treehouse.

There is a "spoiler alert" button codes like this...

$(".spoiler").append("<button>click here!</button>");

I am trying to make the text that appears on the button randomly generate to different text from an array each time the page is refreshed. I have found this code to be relevant but I am not sure how to implement.

<script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var r_text = new Array (); r_text[0] = "All the leaves are brown"; r_text[1] = "And the sky is grey"; r_text[2] = "I've been for a walk"; r_text[3] = "On a winter's day"; r_text[4] = "I'd be safe and warm"; r_text[5] = "If I was in L.A."; r_text[6] = "California dreaming, On such a winter's day"; var i = Math.floor(7*Math.random())

document.write(r_text[i]); </script>

Thank you for the help!

Anthony

1 Answer

Tobias Schulz
Tobias Schulz
1,997 Points
Tobias Schulz
Tobias Schulz
1,997 Points

Hi,

i hope i understand your question right... so here is a simple example of what you are trying to do.

example link

Hope this helps!