How to make buttons that adds or subtracts value inside input?

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I have an input that changes a paragraph's font size. The input changes the size of the paragraph whenever I enter things like "30px". I want it able to change when I only put the number of the size I want without needing to have "px" after it.

I also have 2 buttons next to it saying that adds or subtracts the value, but I cannot figure out how to make them change the value.

Obviously, I'd want this to all work without needing to have "px" after the number, but I can't seem to figure it out.

Any help is appreciated.

My code:

<tr>
    <th>Text size (px):
        <input id="textSizeInput" type="text" value="20px">
        <button id="sizeChanger">Change</button>
        <button id="addTen">+10px</button>
        <button id="minusTen">-10px</button>
    </th>
</tr>

Javascript for the above code

var changeTextSize = function () {
    console.log('in changeTextSize');

    var newTextSize = document.getElementById("textSizeInput").value;

    document.getElementById("showText").style.fontSize = newTextSize;
}

document.getElementById('sizeChanger').onclick = changeTextSize;
document.getElementById('textSizeInput').onchange = changeTextSize;
increment button input html javascript
2 Answers

You can add an click event listener to each of the buttons which calls a function and increments the value of the input by a certain number.

To increment the value, get the value of the input, split by "px", get the first item, increment it by the value, concatenate "px" then assign back to the input's value property:

var input = document.getElementById("textSizeInput")
var changeTextSize = function() {
  console.log('in changeTextSize');

  var newTextSize = input.value;

  document.getElementById("showText").style.fontSize = newTextSize;
}

document.getElementById('sizeChanger').onclick = changeTextSize;
document.getElementById('textSizeInput').onchange = changeTextSize;

function increment(value){
  let currentValue = input.value.split("px")[0]
  input.value = +currentValue + value + "px";
}
<tr>
  <th>Text size (px):
    <input id="textSizeInput" type="text" value="20px">
    <button id="sizeChanger">Change</button>
    <button id="addTen" onclick="increment(10)">+10px</button>
    <button id="minusTen" onclick="increment(-10)">-10px</button>
  </th>
</tr>

<p id="showText">Hello World!</p>

user_142512210

Without any data validation or bounds checks:

function increment() {
  const input = document.getElementById("textSizeInput");
  input.value = Number(input.value) + 10;
}
function decrement() {
  const input = document.getElementById("textSizeInput");
  input.value = Number(input.value) - 10;
}
<tr>
    <th>Text size (px):
        <input id="textSizeInput" type="text" size="5" value="20"> px
        <button id="addTen" onclick="increment()">+10px</button>
        <button id="minusTen" onclick="decrement()">-10px</button>
    </th>
</tr>

user_9362930
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