How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser using JavaScript

How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser using JavaScript

Introduction

In this tutorial we will create a How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser using JavaScript. This tutorial purpose is to teach you how to create a basic calculator. This will cover all the basic function that will that let you use a calculator in a web browser. I will provide a sample program to show the actual coding of this tutorial.

This tutorial is simple and easy to understand just follow the instruction I provided and you can do it without a problem. This program can be use to any system or application if you want to use a calculate in your website. I will give my best to provide you the easiest way of creating this program Basic Calculator. So let's do the coding.

Before we get started:

This is the link for the template that i used for the layout design https://getbootstrap.com/.

Creating The Interface

This is where we will create a simple interface for our application. This code will only display the interface of the calculator. To create this simply copy and write it into your text editor, then save it as index.html.
  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html lang="en">
  3. <head>
  4. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/bootstrap.css"/>
  5. <meta charset="UTF-8" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
  6. </head>
  7. <nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  8. <div class="container-fluid">
  9. <a class="navbar-brand" href="https://sourcecodester.com">Sourcecodester</a>
  10. </div>
  11. </nav>
  12. <div class="col-md-3"></div>
  13. <div class="col-md-6 well">
  14. <h3 class="text-primary">How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser</h3>
  15. <hr style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"/>
  16. <div class="col-md-6 well" style="background-color:gray; margin-left:150px;">
  17. <form name="calculator">
  18. <input type="text" id="result" style="width:100%; height:50px; font-size:30px;" disabled="disabled">
  19. <br /><br />
  20. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('1')" style="padding:25px; margin-left:10px; font-size:14px;">1</button>
  21. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('2')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;" >2</button>
  22. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('3')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">3</button>
  23. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('+')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">+</button>
  24. <br /><br />
  25. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('4')" style="padding:25px; margin-left:10px; font-size:14px;">4</button>
  26. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('5')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">5</button>
  27. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('6')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">6</button>
  28. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('-')" style="padding-top:25px; padding-bottom:25px; padding-right:27px; padding-left:27px; font-size:14px;">-</button>
  29. <br /><br />
  30. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('7')" style="padding:25px; margin-left:10px; font-size:14px;">7</button>
  31. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('8')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">8</button>
  32. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('9')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">9</button>
  33. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('*')" style="padding-top:25px; padding-bottom:25px; padding-right:26px; padding-left:26px; font-size:13px;">x</button>
  34. <br /><br />
  35. <button type="button" onclick="cancel();" style="padding:25px; margin-left:10px; font-size:14px;">C</button>
  36. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('0')" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">0</button>
  37. <button type="button" onclick="solve()" style="padding:25px; font-size:14px;">=</button>
  38. <button type="button" onclick="calculate('/')" style="padding-top:25px; padding-bottom:25px; padding-right:26px; padding-left:26px; font-size:14px;">/</button>
  39. </form>
  40. </div>
  41. <script src="js/script.js"></script>
  42. </body>
  43. </html>

Creating JavaScript Function

This is where the main function of the application is. This code will display the basic functionality of a real calculator. To do this just copy and write these block of codes inside the text editor and save it as script.js.
  1. function calculate(val){
  2. document.getElementById("result").value+=val;
  3. }
  4.  
  5. function cancel(){
  6. document.getElementById("result").value='';
  7. }
  8.  
  9. function solve(){
  10. var number = document.getElementById("result").value;
  11. var total = eval(number);
  12. document.getElementById("result").value = total;
  13. }

In the code above we just only create several method that will calculate the number we just entered. The function includes for getting the total value of the entered number such as (1+2, 5*9). All the buttons are already bind with a pre-coded script so that we will only getting the number every time you clicked the button.

Output:

The How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser using JavaScript source code that I provide can be download below. Please kindly click the download button.

There you have it we successfully created How to Create a Simple Calculator in Web Browser using JavaScript. I hope that this simple tutorial help you to what you are looking for. For more updates and tutorials just kindly visit this site. Enjoy Coding!

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