Input value is a string instead of a number

Question

When i add a number to the input it doesn\'t change the value that stays at 5 and when i go in the console and type uw.value i get \"6\" back instead of 6 which i typed in

Answer 1

var uw = parseInt(document.getElementById("wakken").value, 10); // (value, radix)
if (typeof uw === "number") console.log("works! 'uw' is an int");

Will log "works! 'uw' is an int", because we collected the value and used parseInt(_: String) to convert it to an int.