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Edgar Mantes
9,499 PointsWhy did all numbers written out on the document? Can someone please clarify for me...
In this video he had a "for loop" that looked like this:
var html;
for ( var i = 1; i <= 10; i += 1 )
{ html += div + i + /div; } document.write(html)
When he previewed the results of this loop the document printed out 0 through 9. When I look at this code its seems like it is only suppose to print out the last value of the variable "html." Doesn't everything repeat from "for" all the way to the last "}" until the condition is false, then jumps out of the loop and executes the next line of code. Which in this case is the document.write(html). And the last value the variable "html" got should be 9. That is why, in my head, the result should only be 9 and not 0 thru 9.
I know that I'm missing some key concept here. Can someone please help me out.
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherI think you may have misread his code. The code he posts in the video is as such:
var html = ' '
for(var i = 0; i < 10; i+= 1) {
html += '<div>' + i + '</div>';
}
document.write(html);
Because he's looping through and every time appending a block level item (in this case a div) to the html it will produce all numbers in that loop on a new line when the document.write function writes out the fully concatenated html string.
Just to clarify: Every time through the loop he's building up the string "html". When it's all built it prints it all out at once to the document.
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 PointsHey Edgar,
Just to add some clarity, here is the series of events that takes place in this code:
We create the html variable in the first line and assign it a blank space as a value.
Then we create our loop and tell it to run ten times.
Each iteration of the loop, our counter variable (i) increases by one.
On the first iteration we assign a div tag with the value of i (0 at the moment) as the value of the html variable to be displayed within the div element created on this iteration.
On the second iteration, we run through the same process but since we're using a += operator inside the loop, we're basically telling html to "Keep what you have already (The initial value of (div)0(/div)), and add a new div to the end of value". The value for html becomes: (div)0(/div)(div)1(/div)
We run through the rest of the loop, which just continually adds more divs until we hit ten divs.
The loop ends and we ask the system to print out the value of html, which is the set of ten divs with different numbers for each iteration of the loop they represent.
Good luck with the course!
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherJust a note: The initial value of i is 0... not 1. But otherwise Daniel is spot on!
Edgar Mantes
9,499 PointsThis is a great explanation! Thanks Daniel. Definitely clarified this issue for me.
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 PointsHey Jennifer,
Thanks for the heads up. I've fixed the issue and also noticed that the markdown was acting up and printing out the value of the div tags, so I've switched the angle braces with parentheses.
Thanks again!
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherNp Daniel. I've also experienced issues with angle brackets in the markdown :(
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYup. You could use double quotes for that.
Edgar Mantes
9,499 Pointsperfect! thanks again
Edgar Mantes
9,499 PointsEdgar Mantes
9,499 PointsAwesome! Thanks... I know that the single quotes on the div's are necessary but what about the single quotes on the variable html? Would it be okay to use "var html;" in this case?
Thanks again for the quick response!