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JavaScript

Posted by Daniel Eckert
Daniel Eckert
Courses Plus Student 1,756 Points

JavaScript print function; how does it work?

function print { var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output'); outputDiv.innerHTML = message; }

He briefly explains this code but I can't get my head around it. Can anyone explain what this code is doing in detail? Or link me to somewhere, where said information already exists?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

You forgot to include a link to the course page, so I'm not sure what was said about this.

But essentially, the first statement just finds the element that has the ID of "output". Then the next statement takes what was given to the "print" function as an argument and displays it on the page as the contents of the "output" element.