S2JS - Asking, Saying and Manipulating Text : When numbers won't stay numbers2

The problem is that when you use the plus operator on a mixture of numbers and strings, Javascript treats everything as a string.

Apples contains 3, and oranges contains 5.

Expression Result

apples + oranges 8

"total is " + apples + oranges "total is 35"

Expression	Result
apples + oranges	8
"total is " + apples + oranges	"total is 35"

The solution is simply to use parentheses to force the numeric part of the expression to be evaluated first.

Expression Result

"total is " + (apples + oranges) "total is 8"

Expression	Result
"total is " + (apples + oranges)	"total is 8"

<HTML> <body> <canvas id=myCanvas height=200 width=200 style="background:url('/img/tut/clickme.png');"> </canvas> <script> myCanvas.onclick = function () { var apples= 3; var oranges = 5; alert("You have a total of " + (apples + oranges) + " pieces of fruit"); } </script> </body> </html>