Calculate results automatically on keyup function

Question

I've been having hard time on getting the exact value between two input values using

keyup function

. First I get the exact result to calculate and display the result in another input tag but when I add another it displays wrong result. To understand what I mean just check the code below.

HTML:

<input id="ivpd" type="text" name="input_vat_per_document" placeholder="Input VAT per Document">

<input id="gta" type="text" readonly>

<input id="gp" type="text" readonly>

JS:

$('#ivpd').keyup(function(){

  var percentage = 12 / 100;

  var gta = $('#ivpd').val() / percentage;

  var gp = $('#ivpd').val() + $('#gta').val();

  if (gta == Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY || gta == Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY || isNaN(gta))

      gta = "N/A"; // OR 0

  $('#gta').val(gta);

  $('#gp').val(gp);

});

For example:
If I input

964.25

in

ivpd

,

gta

will be

8035.75

but

gp

displays

964.298035.75

which is a wrong result. It shoud be

ivpd

+

gta

.

Answer 1

value property of input-elements always return DOMString and if any of the operand is of type string, Addition(+) operator will do string concatenation operation not addition.

Cast input-value to Number and then manipulate.

Unary plus (+), The unary plus operator precedes its operand and evaluates to its operand but attempts to converts it into a number, if it isn't already.

Note: Number could be used as well instead of Unary plus (+)

$('#ivpd').keyup(function() {
  var percentage = 12 / 100;
  var gta = +this.value / percentage;
  var gp = +this.value + +$('#gta').val();
  if (gta == Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY || gta == Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY || isNaN(gta))
    gta = "N/A"; // OR 0
  $('#gta').val(gta);
  $('#gp').val(gp);
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input id="ivpd" type="text" name="input_vat_per_document" placeholder="Input VAT per Document">
<input id="gta" type="text" readonly>
<input id="gp" type="text" readonly>

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