Is there a more graceful way to accomplish this task?
document.getElementById("progress").innerHTML++
Let me clarify:
++
is considered as a unary operator, requiring only one variable (a number).
innerHTML
represents a string or text value.
- If you add
++
to a string, it will attempt to convert the string into a number. This may result in the correct number if the string contains numerical values, or it may lead to NaN
(not-a-number) otherwise.
Therefore, we can resort to a clever "hack" like this:
(document.getElementById("progress").innerHTML)++; // option 1
++(document.getElementById("progress").innerHTML); // option 2
This method works effectively if the progress
element contains a numerical value. For instance:
function increase() {
(document.getElementById('progress').innerHTML)++;
}
<div id="progress">0</div>
<button onclick="increase()">Click me</button>
While this technique could be viewed as a workaround, I suggest avoiding it whenever possible. Nevertheless, it does provide a solution to your query.