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Sharat Konkimalla
3,630 PointsImagine you have 10 <div> tags on a web page. Each div is 190 pixels wide. Using the two variables in this script, creat
Imagine you have 10 <div> tags on a web page. Each div is 190 pixels wide. Using the two variables in this script, create a new variable named totalWidth that multiplies the width by the numOfDivs variable. Because the width variable is a string, you'll need to use a JavaScript function to retrieve the number value.
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var totalWidth = '190px' *-(10);
<!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>
3 Answers
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsHi Sharat,
The big clue in this challenge is the line, "Because the width variable is a string, you'll need to use a JavaScript function to retrieve the number value."
This is done with the function parseInt() which will take the number out of a string and just return the number. So you'd do something like this:
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var totalWidth = parseInt(width) * numOfDivs;
Shanna vick-Morris
6,683 Pointsvar width = '190px';
var totalImages = 10;
var totalWidth = parseInt(width) * totalImages;
Raphel Banda
6,864 Pointsconst width = '190'; const totalImages = 10; var totalWidth = parseInt(width) * totalImages;
that's how i solved it
Shikeya Anderson
6,377 PointsThis is how I solved it also Raphel.