Learn Basic Debugging by Building a Random Background Color Changer - Step 2

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

hi there, it´s me again! well i realizing the code by the instructions. but i have a problem on the function math. basically the console says: “You should fix the capitalization error in the math.random() line”

I would be delighted if someone could help me, I’m just beginning to understand it.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Build a random background color changer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Random Background Color changer</h1>

    <main>
      <section class="bg-information-container">
        <p>Hex Code: <span id="bg-hex-code">#110815</span></p>
      </section>

      <button class="btn" id="btn">Change Background Color</button>
    </main>
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

:root {
  --yellow: #f1be32;
  --golden-yellow: #feac32;
  --dark-purple: #110815;
  --light-grey: #efefef;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-purple);
  color: var(--light-grey);
  text-align: center;
}

.bg-information-container {
  margin: 15px 0 25px;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
}

.btn {
  cursor: pointer;
  padding: 10px;
  margin: 10px;
  color: var(--dark-purple);
  background-color: var(--golden-yellow);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#fecc4c, #ffac33);
  border-color: var(--golden-yellow);
  border-width: 3px;
}

.btn:hover {
  background-image: linear-gradient(#ffcc4c, #f89808);
}


/* file: script.js */

// User Editable Region

const darkColorsArr = [
  "#2C3E50",
  "#34495E",
  "#2C2C2C",
  "#616A6B",
  "#4A235A",
  "#2F4F4F",
  "#0E4B5A",
  "#36454F",
  "#2C3E50",
  "#800020"
];

function getRandomIndex() {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * darkColorsArr.length);
}

// Example usage to test the function
console.log(darkColorsArr[getRandomIndex()]);




// User Editable Region

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/133.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Learn Basic Debugging by Building a Random Background Color Changer - Step 2

2

You made a bunch of changes that are not related to the instructions? I would reset the step and only make the one requested change.

3

Can you please explain your thought process for the changes that you made?

Fix CamperBot’s error in the math.random() line and open up the console again.