I was working on a simple programming exercise my teacher gave us, and I noticed several times that in Javascript, I have to divide a number by 1, otherwise it will return a ridiculous value. Any explanations? I have a jsfiddle /
var widthrand=Math.floor(Math.random()*widthRange);
width=widthrand + document.getElementById('width').value/1;
If you look at line 22, and take out the divide by 1, and click generate, it will return ridiculous lengths Thanks
I was working on a simple programming exercise my teacher gave us, and I noticed several times that in Javascript, I have to divide a number by 1, otherwise it will return a ridiculous value. Any explanations? I have a jsfiddle http://jsfiddle/TpNay/1/
var widthrand=Math.floor(Math.random()*widthRange);
width=widthrand + document.getElementById('width').value/1;
If you look at line 22, and take out the divide by 1, and click generate, it will return ridiculous lengths Thanks
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Reset to default 11It makes JavaScript type juggle forcing the value of document.getElementById('width').value to bee numeric.
A better way to do it would be parseInt(document.getElementById('width').value, 10)