javascript variable to float code example

Example 1: javascript convert string to float

// parseFloat takes in a string value and converts it to a float 
// The parseFloat function will look at the first character of
// the string and decided whether that character is a number or not
// If not the parseFloat function will return Nan

let stringNumber = "8.0"

let floatNuumber = parseFloat(stringNumber);

Example 2: convert string to float javascript

//do do this use parseFloat()
//it turns a string into a float in js
//you can later use this for animation
var string = "10"
string = parseFloat(string)
console.log(string)