I am new javascript can someone solve this for me, i can make this work?

yooksan22 · #1 05-15-2008, 08:56 PM

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TMA 02 Q4(iii)</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">

var currentPrice;
var bidIncrement;
var newPrice;
var bidPrice1;
var bidPrice2;
var bidPrice3;

currentPrice = window.prompt('Please enter the current bid price', '');
currentPrice = parseFloat(currentPrice);

bidPrice1 = currentPrice+'.10';
bidPrice2 = currentPrice+'.50';
bidPrice3 = currentPrice+1;
newPrice = currentPrice+10;

if (currentPrice < 10);
{
document.write('The new bid is £ '+bidPrice1);
}
else
{if(currentPrice==10 || currentPrice<100)]
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +bidPrice2);
}
else
{if(currentPrice==100 || currentPrice<1000);
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +bidPrice3);
}
else
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +newPrice);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

Peter K · #2 05-15-2008, 11:21 PM

Hmm, TMA? Sounds like an Open University assignment! I suggest that you work in Firefox and use Tools->Error Console to track Javascript errors. I also suggest that you use Notepad++ to do the editing because that will highlight unmatched braces.
<!DOCTYPE
HTML
PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>TMA 02 Q4(iii)</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<script type="text/javascript">

var currentPrice;
var bidIncrement;
var newPrice;
var bidPrice1;
var bidPrice2;
var bidPrice3;

currentPrice = window.prompt('Please enter the current bid price', '');
currentPrice = parseFloat(currentPrice);

bidPrice1 = currentPrice+'.10';
bidPrice2 = currentPrice+'.50';
bidPrice3 = currentPrice+1;
newPrice = currentPrice+10;

if (currentPrice < 10)
{
document.write('The new bid is £ '+bidPrice1);
}
else
{if(currentPrice==10 || currentPrice<100)
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +bidPrice2);
}
else
{if(currentPrice==100 || currentPrice<1000)
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +bidPrice3);
}
else
{
document.write ('The new bid is £ ' +newPrice);
}
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>