On 13 January 2016 at 20:13, David Williams <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Walter Davis wrote in post #1180603: >>>> It's giving me Nan when I wrap the parseInt method around the counter. >>> >>> Check that your spelling of the attribute is correct, note the typo in the >> example. Also, if you want to be extra-careful (just had to deal with >> this >> yesterday) you can go all belt-and-suspenders on it: >>> >>> parseInt( 0 + counter.data('maximum-length') ) >> >> Sorry, left out one more bit here: >> >> parseInt( 0 + counter.data('maximum-length'), 10 ) > > It's still giving me NaN, you can try the code if you want on a test > html form or text area.
Have you tried inserting alert( counter.data('maximum-length') ) to see what the value is? then assuming it looks ok alert (0 + counter.data('maximum-length')) and alert( parseInt( 0 + counter.data('maximum-length'), 10 ) ) Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLtrW0e-%2BWyppmuX8zUVo38Ly%2BC1d-uXq9xQ%2Bxn%2BXqBr5A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.