Will someone please help me with this code. : ) 1

lmarshall · Oct 3, 2002

Will someone please help me with this code. The user is suppose to type in a sport in the textbox and it is suppose to alert the user where they play the sport. I would greatly appreciate it!!!

Thanks

Lmarshall

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Sports.html</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE= "JavaScript1.2">
<!-- HIDE FROM INCOMPATIBLE BROWSERS
function sport_Name(sport) {
var sport= "";
switch (sport) {
case "golf":
alert("Golf is played on a golf course.&quot

;
break;
case "tennis":
alert ("Tennis is played on a tennis court.&quot

;
break;
case "baseball":
alert("Baseball is played on a baseball diamond.&quot

;
break;
case "basketball":
alert ("Basketball is played on a basketball court.&quot

;
break;
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>

<body>
<FORM NAME="TYPES">
What sport do you want to look up? <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="sport" SIZE="25"> <BR>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Look up what they play on" onClick="sport_Name();">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

TheConeHead · Oct 3, 2002

two things pop out:
1: onClick="sport_Name(); you are not sending the function a value - you should have something in the () if you are going to use function sport_Name(sport)
2: even if you do send it- you are resetting it to "" with var sport= ""; this does not need to be there at all.... since sport is stated in function sport_Name(sport) it is already an acceptable variable ready for use in your function

gdiffor · Oct 4, 2002

I believe also that the switch statement only works with an integer in the (). At least this is how it works in Java.

You may need to write a nested if/else

TheConeHead · Oct 4, 2002

The switch will work with strings as well...

onpnt · Oct 4, 2002

you've got some minor erros in there. here's how I would do it. you were also missing the ending -->
you should deffinetely use the case function to change the input to lower case also. heres the code I ran that worked ok.
hope that helps
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Sports.html</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE= "JavaScript1.2">
<!-- HIDE FROM INCOMPATIBLE BROWSERS
function sport_Name() {
str = TYPES.sport.value
str = str.toLowerCase();
switch (str) {
case "golf":
alert("Golf is played on a golf course.&quot

;
break;
case "tennis":
alert("Tennis is played on a tennis court.&quot

;
break;
case "baseball":
alert("Baseball is played on a baseball diamond.&quot

;
break;
case "basketball":
alert("Basketball is played on a basketball court.&quot

;
break;
}
}
-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>

<body>
<FORM NAME="TYPES">
What sport do you want to look up? <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="sport" SIZE="25"> <BR>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Look up what they play on" onClick="sport_Name();">
</FORM>
</body>
</html> A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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