A little DOM error, misinterpreting constant (number) with strings...

[Peeyush]

Code:

function calc()
{
	var calc = document.getElementById("main");
	var x = calc.num1.value;
	var y = calc.num2.value;
	var sum = x + y;
	document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = sum ;
}

When I enter value of x as 1 and of y as 2, sum i get is 12. why is JS misinterpreting it as strings?

[devnull69]

You are rather misinterpreting it as numbers :-)

The value of HTML input fields is always a string. You have to convert it to whatever data type you need

var x = parseFloat(calc.num1.value);
var y = parseFload(calc.num2.value);
var sum = x + y;

// now sum will be numeric

[Peeyush]

ThankU ThankU ThankU very much. if i had 1000 accounts on CF, i would have thanked you 1000 times and more!! can you please tell me where did you syudy this from? i am a self taught newbie , i study from w3schools.com

[sunfighter]

Originally Posted by Peeyush

...snip... can you please tell me where did you syudy this from? i am a self taught newbie , i study from w3schools.com

Acually, you should have learned this from W2schools; page http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

<input type="text" /> defines a one-line input field that a user can enter text into:

<input type="text" name="firstname" />
There is no type="numeric".

I don't bring this up to make you feel small. We all need help from time to time, because we forget. We only remember 10% of what we learn. I'm just saying the fault is in our brain retention not where we learned it. I like W3schools

[felgall]

Originally Posted by Peeyush

i study from w3schools.com

That is one of the worst places to learn JavaScript - most of the pages teach how to write JavaScript for netscape 4 and earlier and only the new commands introduced since 2005 are covered without the pages covering the now obsolete commands being rewritten.

Most of the rest of the site isn't too dated as the many other languages the two owners of that site cover haven't changed anywhere near as rapidly as JavaScript has.

[Peeyush]

@sunfighter thanks for pointing out my mistake :P i never really practiced per chapter, i just read it all and then moved to next chapter, thinking i will use all that i had learned when i start making a real practice, but as they say, practice makes a man perfect, also i had tried type = number method, it wasn't working still, and i would like to thank devnull69 again, coz his method worked properly, i aint really good at DOM....

@felgall thanks for telling me the other website to learn JavaScript From, i greatly appreciate it

[Kor]

Originally Posted by sunfighter

There is no type="numeric".

Actually there is type="number". But in HTML5, along with a dozen of new types. See also:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archiv...5_input_types/
Unfortunately, not all of them are cross-browser, yet. See also:
http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html

But those types are rather used to ease the way user fills the fields (most of the time on the smartphones), not to change the nature of the value of the INPUT element, which is always a primitive String.