September 11, 2022

How to Make Negative Value Positive in Javascript

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to make negative value positive in javascript. It is difficult to calculate anything without numbers. A number is made up of a combination of the digits 0 through 9. For a newbie developer, it can be a bit tricky to make negative value positive.

There are numerous ways to make negative value positive. But for the sake of simplicity, we will make use of Math object. This object contains a lot of methods and properties which can help us in various mathematical operations. One of those methods is the abs() method.

The abs() method returns an absolute value of a number. Regardless of the direction, the absolute value of a number can be found by measuring its distance from zero on the number line. Absolute value is the value that persists after removing any prior negative sign from a number. The absolute value of -3 is 3.

In the following example, we have an input field in which we will enter a random negative number. Upon click of a button, we will make negative value positive and display that on the screen. Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

We have 4 elements in the HTML file (div, input, button, and h1). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.

The innerText for the button element is “Get” and for the h1 element, it is “Result”.
We have done some basic styling using CSS and added the link to our style.css stylesheet inside the head element.
We have also included our javascript file script.js with a script tag at the bottom.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  <title>Document</title>
</head>

<body>

  <div class="container">
    <input type="number" placeholder="Enter Number">
    <button>Get</button>
    <h1>Result</h1>
  </div>

  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>

.container {        
    text-align: center;
}

button {
  margin-top: 10px;
  padding: 10px 20px;
}

input {
  display: block;  
  margin: 10px auto;
  padding: 10px 20px;
}

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button, 
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button { 
  -webkit-appearance: none; 
  margin: 0; 
}

Javascript

We have selected the input element, button element, and h1 element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in input, btnGet, and output variables respectively.
We have attached a click event listener to the button element.

In the event handler function, we are storing the value of the input element in the num variable.
We are calling the abs() method to get the absolute of num and storing it in the result variable.
We are displaying the result in the h1 element using the innerText property.

let input = document.querySelector("input");
let btnGet = document.querySelector("button");
let output = document.querySelector("h1");

btnGet.addEventListener("click", () => {
  let num = input.value;
  let result = Math.abs(num);
  output.innerText = result;
});

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