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JavaScript

Posted by Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points

onclick function will not recognise my value?

Hi Guys, I am currently building an app which allows me to change a background color on click. I have made another function which creates a random color value for me each time. When I pass this through myFunction which gets activated onclick, nothing appears to happen. I have tried to pass my value through as a string and this still doesn't help.

Can someone please explain why this is?

Here is my codepen: https://codepen.io/Nathan-Callum-Marshall/pen/wXybZE?editors=1010

Thanks

Nathan

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

The "randomColor()" function passes back the string directly, it does not have a "value" property.

Also, the color name string should not have a semicolon at the end.

Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points

Thank you, Steve. I had the .value on there to see if it made a difference at the time. Silly mistake by me. I should have known about the semicolon :D

Thanks once again