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Amanda Gacke
1,136 PointsI did use the 'var' keyword to create the 'totalWidth' variable
I'm not sure what is wrong with my answer. It says 'Bummer! Did you use 'var' as a keyword to create the 'totalWidth' variable and I definitely did.
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
var width = parseInt(width);
var totalWidth = width * numOfDivs;
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
brandon downs
11,577 Pointsi think what is happening here, is that you have declared the variable width twice.
the second time you just wanted to mutate the value of width do that by removing the var keyword before the second time you use the width variable.
var width = '190px';
var numOfDivs = 10;
width = parseInt(width);
var totalWidth = width * numOfDivs;