// get and setup (if needed) the other page elements --------------------------

var scoreArea = document.getElementById("scoreArea");
scoreArea.innerHTML = "Score: " + MAXNUM;

var instructionArea = document.getElementById("instructionArea");
instructionArea.innerHTML = "Guess an integer between 0 and " + MAXNUM + ".";

var playArea = document.getElementById("playArea");

var commentArea = document.getElementById("commentArea");
commentArea.innerHTML = REPINIT;

var guessField = document.getElementById("guessField");
var guessLength = ((MAXNUM.toString()).length).toString();
guessField.setAttribute("maxlength", guessLength);
guessField.setAttribute("size", guessLength);

var guessButton = document.getElementById("guessButton");
guessButton.setAttribute("onclick","checkGuess()");

var resetButton = document.getElementById("resetButton");
resetButton.setAttribute("onclick","location.reload()");