Writing Table Cells and Switch Statements - javascript

[worldtraveller]

Writing Table Cells and Switch Statements

I am to create a function and purpose is to write blank tables cells to make up horizontal bar. function will have 2 parameters=(partyType and percent

partyType parameter stores variables of D,R,I,G or L

percent parameter store percentage rounded to nearest integer

so I am to make a switch and break statements /commands

then have to create a For Loop in counter variable goes up from 1 through value of parmeter increments of 1

heres the code I created for this one

     function createBar(partyType,percent){ // script element to create blank cells
switch(partyType) {
case "D": document.write("<td class='dem'></td>");
break;
case "E": document.write("<td class='rep'></td>");
break;
case "I": document.write("<td class='ind'></td>");
break;
case "G": document.write("<td class='green'></td>");
break;
case "L": document.write("<td class='lib'></td>");
break;
}
var barText = partyType

for (i=0; i < percent; i++)
{
document.write(barText);

So what improvements should I make?
should my loop be before everything?
Thanks

[Old Pedant]

You COMPLETELY IGNORED what I told you last week.

You *STILL* have the "</td>" in the WRONG PLACE!

WHY do you ASK questions here if you then REFUSE to take the advice and answers we give you???????

[worldtraveller]

if its all wrong, then what the %$%$# is it supposed to look like? this is so mind boggling

[Afro_Programmer]

Originally Posted by worldtraveller

if its all wrong, then what the %$%$# is it supposed to look like? this is so mind boggling

Well for one, you are never clear on exactly what it is that you want to accomplish so it's hard for anyone to really help you. We could write out some code snippets for you to give you some examples, but you never give a clear explanation for any of your code.

[worldtraveller]

Well is complicated I do have a big question from my text that i can show, but its lots to write and no one was willing to help me before

[Old Pedant]

no one was willing to help me before

NOT TRUE AT ALL!!!

You got a *LOT* of help. We told you MANY (if not all!) of the things wrong with the code and then you IGNORED what we told you. HOW MANY TIMES did I tell you, for example, that you could not put the </td> into those document.write calls in that switch statement??? At least three times.

And how many times did we tell you that you keep omitting the + operator when creating concatenated strings?

And...

READ RULE 1.5 OF THIS FORUM!

We are NOT supposed to do your homework for you.

I finally gave up and did it, because it was apparent that you weren't going to be able to do it yourself. But I'm not going to do it for your next assignment. Programming is a very very exacting science. You can't be sloppy about it. You can't just toss code at the wall and hope it actually runs. You need to learn to do it one step at a time.

But to say no one was willing to help is just not true. We weren't willing to do the work FOR you. Yes. That's true. But we shouldn't do so.

[worldtraveller]

All right. Thanks for the help I will take my time in posting. Seems things are going in reverse. I will be more precise in my postings. and no more funny comments

[Old Pedant]

Have you looked at the answer I gave you in the other thread?

I guess I should say answers. One answer that does the homework for you, another that shows you at least some of the errors in the latest version you posted.

[worldtraveller]

I did follow your answers, instructions, but when i implemented, nothing at all worked. no offense, i did appreciate your help hands down

[Old Pedant]

This is NEARLY unbelievable.

LOOK HERE:

http://www.mywhizbang.com/election.htm

And you say you can't make that code work? I am ABSOLUTELY mystified.
It works in MSIE.
It works in FireFox.
It works in Chrome.
In what way does it NOT work for you ????