[thelist] passing a JS variable to another page? Can I?
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Mon May 14 03:03:33 CDT 2001
>I imagine there has to be a way to pull a variable from the
>link/address bar in javascript, right? so that something like
>"A href='webpage.html?santa'" would be the link, and
>webpage.html could declare a variable that pulls in that item?
In webpage.html:
var page = location.href;
var x = page.substring(page.indexOf('?')+1);
Now the string 'santa' is in variable x and you can do whatever you like
with it.
>My reasoning is I'd like to create one page that I can call
>using different variable to, for instance, show various images.
>
>Is this possible? I know JS enough to make useful functions and
>to know what I'm reading, I just haven't been able to find
>anything like this yet.
Yep, quite possible.
ppk
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