# Learn Recursion by Building a Decimal to Binary Converter - Step 105

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**Tags:** javascript\
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876 "2024-02-20T19:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jdamour1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jdamour1](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Jdamour1)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/1 "2024-02-20T19:10:32Z")

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### Tell us what’s happening: You should chain `.textContent` to the `.getElementById()` method.

### Your code so far

setTimeout(() =\> {  
document.getElementById(obj.msg).textContent;

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/2 "2024-02-21T10:01:23Z")

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> [@Jdamour1](#):
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> g).textContent;

you need to assign something to this, it’s not enough to select the `textContent` property, you also need to change it

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**Author:** ![Danishhafeez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Danishhafeez](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Danishhafeez)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/3 "2024-02-21T10:53:41Z")

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setTimeout(() =\> {  
var textContent = document.getElementById(obj.msg).textContent;  
// Now you can use the text content stored in the variable ‘textContent’  
console.log(textContent); // Or do something else with it  
}, 1000); // Delay the execution for 1000 milliseconds (1 second)

In this example, the `textContent` variable stores the text content of the element with the ID specified by `obj.msg` . You can then use this variable to perform further operations, such as logging it to the console or manipulating the DOM.

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**Author:** ![Jdamour1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jdamour1](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Jdamour1)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/4 "2024-02-22T15:51:23Z")

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I am not understanding it well, please try to go deep

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**Author:** ![Jdamour1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@Jdamour1](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Jdamour1)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/5 "2024-02-22T16:05:40Z")

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Nothing is changing. I am trying but it is not working

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/6 "2024-02-23T08:14:02Z")

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can you show your new code please?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/original/3X/e/1/e1c433102e34b46dfaa3e15d13ab9a514b127078.svg) [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-recursion-by-building-a-decimal-to-binary-converter-step-105/673876/7 "2024-08-23T20:14:43Z")

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