Learn Recursion by Building a Decimal to Binary Converter - Step 44

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<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Decimal to Binary Converter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Decimal to Binary Converter</h1>
    <div class="input-container">
      <label for="number-input">Enter a decimal number:</label>
      <input
        value=""
        type="number"
        name="decimal number input"
        id="number-input"
        class="number-input"
      />
      <button class="convert-btn" id="convert-btn">Convert</button>
    </div>
    <output id="result" for="number-input"></output>
    <div id="animation-container"></div>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

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

:root {
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --dark-blue: #1b1b32;
  --orange: #f1be32;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-blue);
  font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
  font-size: 18px;
  color: var(--light-grey);
  padding: 0 15px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
}

h1 {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 2.3rem;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.input-container {
  margin: 10px 0;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 10px;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.convert-btn {
  background-color: var(--orange);
  cursor: pointer;
  border: none;
  padding: 4px;
}

.number-input {
  height: 25px;
}

#result {
  margin: 10px 0;
  min-width: 200px;
  width: fit-content;
  min-height: 80px;
  word-break: break-word;
  padding: 15px;
  border: 5px solid var(--orange);
  font-size: 2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

#animation-container {
  margin: auto;
  max-width: 300px;
}

.animation-frame {
  margin: 250px auto 0;
  padding: 15px 10px;
  border: 5px solid var(--orange);
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 500px) {
  .input-container {
    flex-direction: row;
  }

  #result {
    max-width: 460px;
  }
}

/* file: script.js */

// User Editable Region

function a (){
  return `"freeCodeCamp " + b()`
}

// User Editable Region


const numberInput = document.getElementById("number-input");
const convertBtn = document.getElementById("convert-btn");
const result = document.getElementById("result");

const decimalToBinary = (input) => {
  let binary = "";

  if (input === 0) {
    binary = "0";
  }

  while (input > 0) {
    binary = (input % 2) + binary;
    input = Math.floor(input / 2);
  }

  result.innerText = binary;
};

const checkUserInput = () => {
  if (!numberInput.value || isNaN(parseInt(numberInput.value))) {
    alert("Please provide a decimal number");
    return;
  }

  decimalToBinary(parseInt(numberInput.value));
  numberInput.value = "";
};

convertBtn.addEventListener("click", checkUserInput);

numberInput.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
  if (e.key === "Enter") {
    checkUserInput();
  }
});

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.1.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Learn Recursion by Building a Decimal to Binary Converter - Step 44

function a (){
  return `"freeCodeCamp " + b()`
}

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What is not working? Please talk to us about how the instructions or error message is confusing.

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what is this b() looks like a function and where it is located is unknown

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b() is a function call. The function b has not been created yet.

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Why doesn’t shielding work here?

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I have no idea what “shielding” means.

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these are backticks ``

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Yes, those are backticks.

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I was wondering why this doesn’t work within backticks

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Why what doesn’t work within backticks?

The Step doesn’t ask for you to use string interpolation, so you cannot use string interpolation in your solution.

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