I'm trying to display a countdown from 10 in my HTML.
This comes from a for loop which decrements down from 10.
The problem I have is since the loop counts down and stops at 0 the value I'm displaying is the final value rather than printing all the values (if that makes sense)!
How can I display all of them in my HTML?
Code:
let countdown = 'Countdown 10';
for (let i = 10; i >= 0; i--) {
if (i === 10) {
countdown = 'Countdown 10';
} else if (i === 0) {
countdown = 'Blast off!';
} else {
countdown = i;
}
console.log(countdown);
};
let output = document.querySelector('.output');
output.innerHTML = '';
const para = document.createElement('p');
para.textContent = countdown;
output.appendChild(para);
I'm sure I can do something with the para.textContent e.g. putting it into the loop. But I'm not sure how.
you should assign the value to the HTML element and append that element to document inside the loop block with a delay
let delay = 300;
let count = 10;
const output = document.querySelector('.output');
const para = document.createElement('p');
output.appendChild(para);
for (let i = count; i >= 0; i--) {
let countdown = i;
if (i === 10) {
countdown = 'Countdown 10';
} else if (i === 0) {
countdown = 'Blast off!';
}
setTimeout(()=>{
para.textContent = countdown;
}, (count - i) * delay)
};<div class="output"></div>You just need to set up your elements first, so you can write to them along the way. Using a for loop will cycle through so fast, you won't see the countdown happen, so I also show an alternate version using setInterval, which allows you to control the time in between each count.
let countdown = 'Countdown 10';
let output = document.querySelector('.output');
output.innerHTML = '';
const para = document.createElement('p');
output.appendChild(para);
const para2 = document.createElement('p');
output.appendChild(para2);
for (let i = 10; i >= 0; i--) {
if (i === 10) {
countdown = 'Countdown 10';
} else if (i === 0) {
countdown = 'Blast off!';
} else {
countdown = i;
}
para.textContent = countdown;
//console.log(countdown);
};
para2.textContent = 'Countdown 10'
let i = 9,
intv = setInterval(() => {
if (i < 0) return clearInterval(intv);
let countdown = i === 0 ? 'Blast off!' : i
para2.textContent = countdown;
i--
}, 1000)<div class='output'>
</div>