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[sherlockturtle]

how can you make a += work so if you add 5+5 with += it would come out as 55 how would you make it come out as 10?

[devnull69]

It will automatically come out as 10 if you make sure that both sides of the "+=" are numeric values. If you (for example) read the value of an input box, it will always be a string (even if you entered a number). You'll have to convert it into a numeric value before adding 5 to it

Example

var myValue = document.getElementById('myinput').value;
myValue = Number(myValue); // convert it to a numeric value if possible, otherwise it will be "NaN"
myValue += 5;   // mathematically add 5 to this value

[sherlockturtle]

thanks