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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Numbers Parsing Numbers From Strings

Posted by layeesolo
layeesolo
7,316 Points

This challenge is really annoying.

I have tried everything and still not allowing me to move on to the next level. 640 is displaying in the console.log. what am i doing wrong? The question is a variable named "boxWidth" already exists with a value of "640px" create a new variable name "numWidth" and use the "parseInt" method to extract the numeric value from the boxWidth's string value.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>JavaScript Foundations: Parsing Numbers From Strings</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css">
    <script>
      var boxWidth = "640px";
      var boxHeight = "480px";
          var numWidth= parseInt("640px",10);



    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Parsing Numbers From Strings</h2>
    <script src="viewer.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

eck
eck
43,038 Points

What you have works, but they want you to use the boxWidth variable as an argument in the parseInt function. Try this:

var numWidth =  parseInt(boxWidth, 10);
layeesolo
layeesolo
7,316 Points
layeesolo
layeesolo
7,316 Points

thanks for making it clearly to me.

eck
eck
43,038 Points

Np :D