It points to the beginning of this line, and says a semicolon is missing. Strange!
var resultPitStops = document.getElementById(‘resultPitStops’);
That’s where the problem starts. Look at the end of the previous line.
It also ends in a semi-colon. I don’t see the problem:
var runtime = document.getElementById(‘runtime’);
runtime.onclick = function () {
var form = document.getElementById(‘form1’);
formFuel(form);
}
Are you sure it’s only the javascript that you’re submitting there?
I get a “SyntaxError: missing variable name” error at a very different place when submitting your scripting code.
Oh, I pasted in the whole page!
By using jslint repeatedly and researching to understand the errors, I’ve come to the following:
var document,
runtime = document.getElementById('runtime'),
resultPitStops = document.getElementById('resultPitStops');
function formFuel(form) {
var a = form.elements.tank.value,
b = form.elements.driveMinutes.value,
c = form.elements.driveSeconds.value,
d = form.elements.consumed.value,
used = a - d, // get the amount of fuel used -->
secs = b * 60, // convert minutes into seconds -->
secstotal = secs + c, // add minutes and seconds to get total seconds -->
secsPerCC = secstotal / used, // divide the number of seconds into the used fuel amount for secs per cc -->
seconds = secsPerCC % 60, // use modulus operator to get the remainder and convert into seconds figure -->
minutes = math.floor(secsPerCC / 60), // get the minute figure as a digit -->
runtime2 = minutes + ":" + seconds; // concatenate everything into minutes and seconds -->
form.elements.ans.value = runtime2;
}
function heatpit(form) {
var e = form.elements.LENGTH.value, // put LENGTH field value into variable e -->
f = form.elements.STOPS.value, // put STOPS field value into variable f -->
secs2 = e * 60, // convert the minutes into seconds -->
periods = f + '1', // add 1 to the pit stop number get the total number of divisions throughout the period -->
result2 = secs2 / periods, // divide the full time by the number of periods -->
seconds = result2 % 60, // use modulus operator to get the remainder and convert into seconds figure -->
minutes = math.floor(result2 / 60), // get the minute figure as a digit -->
time = minutes + ":" + seconds; // concatenate everything into minutes and seconds -->
form.elements.between.value = time; // display in the "between" field s/b "time" value -->
}
runtime.onclick = function () { // https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.onclick
var form = document.getElementById('form1');
formFuel(form);
}
resultPitStops.onclick = function () {
var form = document.getElementById('form2');
heatpit(form);
}
I still don’t understand why a semi-colon is a problem inside the last two functions. When I remove them, then more errors appear. I also don’t know how to ‘define’ math.
This has been a good learning experience.
The code still isn’t working. Do you think defining ‘math’ is the problem?
‘math’ isn’t defined, I think you should be using ‘Math’.
And the following two lines should be ended with a semicolon
Thanks! I did make those two changes, but the code still won’t work.
What’s your whole code like right now, including the form?
<script language=“JavaScript”>
function heatpit(form) {
var e = form.elements.LENGTH.value, // put LENGTH (number of minutes) field value into variable e
f = form.elements.STOPS.value, // put STOPS field value into variable f
secs2 = e * 60, // convert the minutes into seconds
periods = f + ‘1’, // add 1 to the pit stop number get the total number of divisions throughout the LENGTH
result2 = secs2 / periods, // divide the LENGTH by the number of periods
seconds = result2 % 60, // use modulus operator to get the remainder and convert it into seconds figure
minutes = Math.floor(result2 / 60), // get the minute figure as a digit
time = minutes + “:” + seconds; // concatenate everything into minutes and seconds
form.elements.between.value = time; // display "time" value in the "between" field
}
var resultPitStops = document.getElementById(‘resultPitStops’);
resultPitStops.onclick = function () {
var form = document.getElementById(‘form2’);
heatpit(form);
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
Ahh, y’know the moment when it hits you suddenly and you feel silly? I just got that and you might too 
Here’s a fixed heatpit():
function heatpit(form) {
var e = form.elements.LENGTH.value, // put LENGTH (number of minutes) field value into variable e
f = parseInt(form.elements.STOPS.value), // put STOPS field value into variable f
secs2 = e * 60, // convert the minutes into seconds
periods = f + 1, // add 1 to the pit stop number get the total number of divisions throughout the LENGTH
result2 = secs2 / periods, // divide the LENGTH by the number of periods
seconds = result2 % 60, // use modulus operator to get the remainder and convert it into seconds figure
minutes = Math.floor(result2 / 60), // get the minute figure as a digit
time = minutes + ":" + seconds; // concatenate everything into minutes and seconds
form.elements.between.value = time; // display "time" value in the "between" field
}
The changes being:
f = parseInt(form.elements.STOPS.value)
and
periods = f + 1
see, the form field is a string, making f a string that just happened to contain an integer.
if you typed ‘1’ into the form, it’d calculate:
periods = ‘1’ + ‘1’;
to get the result ‘11’!
parseInt() converts to to an integer, and removing the quotes around 1 stops it being converted back to append the ‘1’ character 
Try fixing formFuel in the same way!
Wow, at last it works! A hearty thank you!
If this helps, it can be a good practice to always use Number(form.elements.fieldname.value) whenever you expect the value to be used as a number.
That way, if it’s not a number you can provide a default for it instead:
var stops = Number(form.elements.fieldname.value) || 0;
And of course when it absolutely must be a whole number, use parseInt but don’t forget to include the radix indicator too, otherwise entries of “08” or “09” won’t end up as you expect them to be.
var stops = parseInt(form.elements.fieldname.value, 10) || 0;
Wow, thanks for this valuable information!
And when performing division in binary
4278 / 60 is equivalent to
1000010110110 / 111100
01000111 <-- minutes
______________
111100 )1000010110110
-111100|||||||
[COLOR="DarkRed"]------[/COLOR]v||||||
1000010||||||
-111100||||||
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]------[/COLOR]v|||||
1101|||||
-111100|||||
[COLOR="DarkRed"]------[/COLOR]v||||
11011||||
-111100||||
[COLOR="DarkRed"]------[/COLOR]v|||
110110|||
-111100|||
[COLOR="DarkRed"]------[/COLOR]v||
1101101||
-111100||
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]------[/COLOR]v|
1100011|
-111100|
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]------[/COLOR]v
1001110
-111100
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]------[/COLOR]
10010 <-- seconds
The quotient is the number of minutes, and the remainder is the number of seconds.
01000111 makes for 79 minutes, and 10010 is 26 seconds.
But this has a similar lack of relevance as that with post #36