so, when i console.log document.getElementById("deposit-amount").value I get real time numbers/data. But when I put it into variable and console.log the name (depositAmount), it shows undefined.
html
<div class="deposit">
<h4>Deposit</h4>
<input id="deposit-amount" type="number" placeholder="$ amount you want to deposit">
<button id="deposit-btn">Deposit</button>
</div>
js
const depositAmount = document.getElementById("deposit-amount").value;
Seems to work fine in this snippet. Is there any more code you can share to debug?
function log() {
console.log(document.getElementById('deposit-amount').value);
}
<div class="deposit">
<h4>Deposit</h4>
<input id="deposit-amount" type="number" placeholder="$ amount you want to deposit">
<button id="deposit-btn" onclick="log()">Deposit</button>
</div>
<div class="box-1 common-box">
<p>Deposit</p>
<h2>$ <span id="current-deposit">01</span></h2>
</div>
<div class="deposit">
<h4>Deposit</h4>
<input id="deposit-amount" type="number" placeholder="$ amount you want to deposit">
<button id="deposit-btn">Deposit</button>
</div>
const depositBtn = document.getElementById("deposit-btn");
depositBtn.addEventListener("click", function(){
const depositAmount = document.getElementById("deposit-amount").value;
const depositNumber = parseFloat(depositAmount);
const cuurentDeposit = document.getElementById("current-deposit").innerText;
const currentNumber = parseFloat(cuurentDeposit);
const total = depositNumber + currentNumber;
document.getElementById("current-deposit").innerText = total;
document.getElementById("deposit-amount").value = "";
})
This works. but still when I console.log the name (depositAmount), it shows undefined.Is this because DOM isn't ready? How to resolve this? -@nemo