javascript: IE7 won't divide properly? 100/6

[carsten888]

I am trying to make a percentage by deviding a 100 through a value. Works fine in FF but IE7 choocks on it, throwing an error.

this works:
part = 100/6;
alert(part);

this does not: (in IE7)
temp = 6;
percent = 100/temp;
alert(percent);

What blatently silly thing am I overlooking here?

[carsten888]

I had this code in a function and it turns out IE7 needs the var 'percent' to be declared outside the function for this to work :-0#

[whoisgregg]

You ran into a variable scope issue. :) Instead of letting the variable have local scope inside the function, IE7 required it to have global scope outside the function.

[carsten888]

I see. thanks.