I'm trying to make a simple page that asks you for your name, and then uses name.length (JavaScript) to figure out how long your name is.
This is my code so far:
<script>
var name = prompt("What's your name?");
var lengthOfName = name.length
</script>
<body>
</body>
I'm not quite sure what to put within the body tags so that I can use those variables that I stated before. I realize that this is probably a really beginner level question, but I can't seem to find the answer.
You don't "use" JavaScript variables in HTML. HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language, it just "describes" what the page should look like.
If you want to display a variable on the screen, this is done with JavaScript.
First, you need somewhere for it to write to:
<body>
<p id="output"></p>
</body>
Then you need to update your JavaScript code to write to that <p> tag. Make sure you do so after the page is ready.
<script>
window.onload = function(){
var name = prompt("What's your name?");
var lengthOfName = name.length
document.getElementById('output').innerHTML = lengthOfName;
};
</script>
window.onload = function() {
var name = prompt("What's your name?");
var lengthOfName = name.length
document.getElementById('output').innerHTML = lengthOfName;
};<p id="output"></p>You can create a <p> element:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script>
var name = prompt("What's your name?");
var lengthOfName = name.length
p = document.createElement("p");
p.innerHTML = "Your name is "+lengthOfName+" characters long.";
document.body.appendChild(p);
</script>
<body>
</body>
</html>You can create an element with an id and then assign that length value to that element.
var name = prompt("What's your name?");
var lengthOfName = name.length
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = lengthOfName;<p id='message'></p>