--- michael grover <mike at michaelgrover.com> wrote: > I want to use Javascript to grab one particular variable out of a > url sting containing many variables and I want to populate that > variable into the text box of a form on the page. > > I have no control over the position of the variable nor of how many > variables there are in the string. This seems to get asked a lot. Anyway, courtesy of .jeff: <http://evolt.jeffhowden.com/jeff/code/js_url_variables/index.cfm?foo=bar&far=boo&cfid=1235908&cftoken=14598715> Watch the wrap. Read his explanation. This will allow you to grab any name/value pair in the URL by simply doing: url.foo or url["foo"] and get teh value. Then you can populate say a text box like: <input type="text" value=" <script> url["foo"] </script> " /> HTH Tom ===== >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://www.pixelmech.com/ var me = tom.pixelmech.webDeveloper(); http://www.maccaws.com/ [Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com