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**coothead** · Mar 5, 2004, 08:31 AM

Hi there dd/mm/yy,

Use toFixed(2)
Here is an example...

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta content="mshtml 6.00.2800.1264" name="generator" />
<title>calculations</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body
   {
    background-color:#aaaaff;
    font-family:arial;
    font-size:16px;
   }
div#calcs
   {
    width:200px;
    padding:40px 10px 40px 40px ;
    background-color:#ffffff;
    border:solid 1px #000000;
    position:absolute;
    left:25%;
    top:20%;
   }
input#one, #two,#three
   {
    width:120px;
    font-size:16px;
    text-align:center;
   }
input#button, #reset
   {
    width:56px;
   }
//-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function showIt()
{
var stuffone=document.getElementById("one").value;
var stufftwo=document.getElementById("two").value;
var result=(stuffone*stufftwo/100).[color=red]toFixed(2)[/color];
document.getElementById("three").value=result;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body onload="document.getElementById('two').focus()">
<div id="calcs">
<form action="">
<div>
<input type="text"id="one"/>&#160;&#160;Pounds<br /><br />
<input type="text"id="two"/>&#160;&#160;Percent<br /><br />
<input type="text"id="three"/>&#160;&#160;Result<br /><br />
<input type="button"id="button"value="send"onclick="showIt();"/>&#160;
<input type="reset"id="reset"/>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

cthead

**liorean** · Mar 5, 2004, 08:33 AM

Have a look at the FAQ thread. It answers this question.

Don't use .toFixed. It is broken in ie5m, ie5.0w, ie5.5w. Some numbers will give results that are really, really off.

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