Increase the font size with a click of a button using only JavaScript

Question

I\'m attempting to increase the font size with the click of a button. I have got the first one to work but I can\'t get my head around the second one. The second one, every

Answer 1

Change your function to as in the code below and see what happens:

function increaseFontSizeBy100px() {
    txt = document.getElementById('a');
    style = window.getComputedStyle(txt, null).getPropertyValue('font-size');
    currentSize = parseFloat(style);
    txt.style.fontSize = (currentSize + 100) + 'px';
}
function increaseFontSizeBy1px() {
    txt = document.getElementById('b');
    style = window.getComputedStyle(txt, null).getPropertyValue('font-size');
    currentSize = parseFloat(style);
    txt.style.fontSize = (currentSize + 1) + 'px';
}

Note: as you can see, there are a lot of duplication in both functions. Therefore, if I were you, I would change this function to increase the fontsize by a given value(in this case, an int).

So, what we can do about it? I think we should turn these functions into a more generic one.

Take a look at the code below:

function increaseFontSize(id, increaseFactor){
     txt = document.getElementById(id);
     style = window.getComputedStyle(txt, null).getPropertyValue('font-size');
     currentSize = parseFloat(style);
     txt.style.fontSize = (currentSize + increaseFactor) + 'px';
}

Now, for example, in your button "Increase Font Size 1px", you should put something like:

Font Size by 1 Pixel

But, if we want a "Decrease Font Size 1px", what we can do? We call the function with -1 rather than with 1.

Font Size by -1 Pixel

We solve the Decrease Font Size problem as well. However, I would change the function name to a more generic one and call it in both two functions that I would create: increaseFontSize(id, increaseFactor) and decreaseFontSize(id, decreaseFactor).

That's it.