[Solved] browser freezes with this js code, why?

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You define numberOfFaces as 5, and then start a while loop which checks if that variable has a truthy value – anything above 0 is truthy. That variable will never change though, resulting in an infinite loop.

You need to decrement it somewhere inside the loop using numberOfFaces--; or similar. Maybe like this:

<script>
    var numberOfFaces = 5;
    function generateFaces() {
      while (numberOfFaces) {
        var smileFace = document.createElement("img");
        var random_number = Math.floor(Math.random() * 400);
        smileFace.src = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35727767/smile.png";
        smileFace.style.top = random_number + "px";
        smileFace.style.left = random_number + "px";
        document.getElementById('leftSide').appendChild(smileFace);
        numberOfFaces--;
      }
    }
</script>

Maybe do a tutorial on while loops to help understand this more: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/javascript/javascript_while_loop.htm

Note: Above while loop will stop when numberOfFaces becomes 0. In JS, 0 is falsy.

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solved browser freezes with this js code, why?