Add dynamic values from text boxes

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Hi,

With the code below I can add the static contents of two text boxes:

var y = $w("#text17").text;
var z = $w("#text19").text;
var x = +y + +z  ;

console.log("Y is", y, "Z is", z, "and Xsum is", x)
    $w("#answer").text = String(x);

These two text boxes though have dynamic numerical values. How can I change the code above not to add the static content of the text boxes but the actual numbers loaded dynamically every time?

Thanks.

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Are you trying to add (addition) the two number??
If it is → 

var y = $w("#text17").text;
var z = $w("#text19").text;
var x = Number(y) + Number(z);

console.log("Y is", y, "Z is", z, "and Xsum is", x)
    $w("#answer").text = String(x);

JavaScript Number() Method.

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I’m trying to do addition, yes, like in the code I provided. Only that the values in #text17 and #text19 are not static but change dynamically (say they count some stock in an inventory that changes daily).

I don’t understand the link you sent me how it is related. I don’t want to make a conversion. And your replacement code does not work. You replaced my ( +y + +z ) with number(y) + number(z) but the result is the same. It still adds the placeholder values, not the computed ones.

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@russian-dima ? maybe?

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I did not really understand what you want to achieve, so i just make here some examples, perhaps it fits to your imaginations…

example-1:

var counter = 1
var  y  =  $w("#text"+counter).Text ;

example-2:


var myArray = [text1, text2, text3, title22, title33, expression1]
var  y  =  $w("#"+myArray[3]).Text ;
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@russian-dima Hi, I just want to add (addition) two text boxes whose value changes dynamically.

Example: in my shop, I sell “motherboards” and “vga”. Today I sold 12 and 20 respectively. The “12” and “20” is counted automatically with .count() from the database (like the examples I was struggling yesterday, if you remember). Okay. So 12 and 20 are displayed inside ‘text1’ and ‘text2’ (with .eq() and .count(), etc).

Now, I want to ADD the ‘text1’ with ‘text2’ and get something like:

var total = text1 + text2
console.log(“Total Hardware Sales today:”, total)// where total = 20+12=32.

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I code I mentioned above works perfectly if you are trying to add the numbers in the two texts

var y = $w("#text17").text;
var z = $w("#text19").text;
var x = Number(y) + Number(z);

console.log("Y is", y, "Z is", z, "and Xsum is", x)
    $w("#answer").text = Number(y) + Number(z);
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@ajithkrr As I replied above, your code works perfectly if one has static values in these text boxes. If the value is calculated from a dataset, then it doesn’t work and still adds up the placeholder/static text. I wish it worked. Thank you for your effort though.