<html> <head> <title> Colors </title> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R")); var b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G")); var c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B")); document.body.style.backgroundColor=rgb(a,b,c); </script> </body> </html>
Why doesn't the background color change according to the RGB values? What have I done wrong??
You need to use quotes:
document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(' + a + ',' + b + ',' + c + ')';
JS Fiddle demo.
Or:
document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(' + [a,b,c].join(',') + ')';
JS Fiddle demo.
Unquoted the JavaScript is passing the variables, as arguments, a
,b
and c
to an undefined function called rgb()
. As you're setting a CSS property you need to pass a string, hence the requirement of quoting.
Oh, and also you're using parseInt()
which doesn't require a radix to be passed in, but it's better (and easier to avoid problems) if you do (the radix being the expected number-base):
var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R"), 10) || 255, b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G"), 10) || 255, c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B"), 10) || 255;
JS Fiddle demo (In the demo I use 105
just so it's clear the default is being used if the cancel button is used).
And if someone hits 'cancel' on the prompt, you might want to supply a default argument to ensure that an actual colour-value is passed, since cancel otherwise, I think, evaluates to false
(I'm assuming you'd prefer 255
, but obviously adjust to taste).
You could also, of course, simply define a function:
function rgb(r,g,b) { return 'rgb(' + [(r||0),(g||0),(b||0)].join(',') + ')'; } var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R"), 10), b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G"), 10), c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B"), 10); document.body.style.backgroundColor = rgb(a,b,c);
JS Fiddle demo
And this approach has the (perhaps specious) benefit of allowing a custom default value to be used:
function rgb(r,g,b, def) { def = parseInt(def, 10) || 0; return 'rgb(' + [(r||def),(g||def),(b||def)].join(',') + ')'; } var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R"), 10), b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G"), 10), c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B"), 10); document.body.style.backgroundColor = rgb(a,b,c,40);
JS Fiddle demo
References:
Use quotes around the value
document.body.style.backgroundColor="rgb(" + a + "," + b + "," + c + ")";
rgb needs to be in quotation mark:
<html> <head> <title> Colors </title> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R")); var b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G")); var c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B")); document.body.style.backgroundColor='rgb(' + a + ',' + b + ',' + c + ')'; </script> </body> </html>
jsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/pduQ6/
You have no function called rgb(...)
I think you meant to do:
document.body.style.backgroundColor = "rgb(" + a + "," + b + "," + c + ");";
The problem is that the color needs to be a string:
var a = parseInt(prompt("Enter R"),10); var b = parseInt(prompt("Enter G"),10); var c = parseInt(prompt("Enter B"),10); document.body.style.backgroundColor = "rgb(" + [a,b,c].join() + ")";
Demo