[thelist] Javascript - round to 2 decimal points

Bob Meetin bobm at dottedi.biz
Fri May 22 21:23:03 CDT 2009


Tim Snadden wrote:
>
> On 23/05/2009, at 12:47 PM, Bob Meetin wrote:
>
>> I have a simple script that does a volume calculation if you enter the 3
>> values of length, width, height.  see it at
>> http://dottedi.biz/codesamples/volume_calc.html
>>
>> What I don't know how to do is to use "tofixed(2)" in the script to set
>> the number of decimal points to 2 in the Cubic Yards output.
>>
>
> Hi Bob. It's case sensitive and need to be toFixed rather than 
> tofixed. Also it needs to operate on a number rather than a string. Try
>
> parseInt(myform.cuyd.value).toFixed(3)
>
> Hope that helps. Cheers, Tim
>
Thx.  Closer but no seegars.  This trims to the correct number of 
decimal points but also rounds whatever is after the decimal points down 
to .00.  Input 7, 7,13  and tab to see the results.

Over, Bob


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