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Why is 'i' not in the actual code? 'i' is in the for loop initialization, but 'i' is not in the actual code.

Why is 'i' not in the actual code? 'i' is in the for loop initialization, but 'i' is not in the actual code execution between the '{ }'

It works for me but I would like clarification because I was expecting to put 'i' in the code itself.

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Please show the code that you have this question about.

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var html = '';
var red;
var green;
var blue;
var rgbColor;

for ( var i = 1; i <= 100; i += 1) {
  red = Math.floor(Math.random() * 256 );
  green = Math.floor(Math.random() * 256 );
  blue = Math.floor(Math.random() * 256 );
  rgbColor = 'rgb(' + red + ',' + green + ',' + blue + ')';
  html += '<div style="background-color:' + rgbColor + '"></div>';  
}

document.write(html);
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The value of "i" is only used to control how many times the loop runs, it is not needed inside the loop block. You could,, however, modify the code if you wanted to place the value inside each created "div":

  html += '<div style="background-color:' + rgbColor + '">' + i + "</div>";
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thanks for the quick reply.

ok I see why var htm = ' ' ; was declared at line 1.

thanks for clarifying. My understanding of the 'i' is becoming more clear.

Whatever code is inside of the { } of the for loop will run the number of times specified in the for loop (in this case when is is equal to or less than 100 it will keep running. Once it's greater than 100 it will stop).

it will generate a red, green, blue, then concatenate them into the value of the rgbColor variable; finally it will add the value of the rgbColor variable inside of a div element. It will repeat these steps 100 times thus creating 100 divs.

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That's right, the loop variable controls the number of repeats whether or not it is used in the loop body.