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Madeline Yao
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,611 PointsWhy there is a difference between putting the document.write inside the for loop and outside the for loop
A. var html = ''; var red; var green; var blue; var rgbColor; for(var i = 0; i < 10; 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);
B. var html = ''; var red; var green; var blue; var rgbColor; for(var i = 0; i < 10; 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); }
I worked on the challenge in the video with the code above and I find the number of color dots is difference. With the code in A above, I find the number of color dots is 10 in the end whereas the code in B above will lead to more than 10 color dots. Could anyone please explain why? Thank you!
3 Answers
nick black
5,578 PointsWhy there is a difference between putting the document.write inside the for loop and outside the for loop
if you put a statement inside of any loop, it is going to run with each iteration of the loop.
If you put it outside of the loop, it is going to run once
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsIn the first example. the loop keeps adding new elements to the "HTML" string, then "document.write" is called to place all 10 on the page at once.
In the second example, as the "HTML" string is being made, the contents are being written to the page every time. So all the ones previously written are witten again, plus a new one. By the time the loop finishes, the first one will have been written 10 times, the second one 9 times, the third 8, and so on. There should be a total of 55 items (but only 10 unique ones).
What's happening might be more obvious if you include the index value inside each element:
html += '<div style="background-color:' + rgbColor + '">' + i + '</div>';
mimo momo
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 254 Pointsyou should remove the plus sign next to (html)
html = '<div style="background-color:' + rgbColor + '">' + i + '</div>';