I have an interesting question.

I'm writing a web app in ASP (before we convert to ASP.NET).

I'm creating a session variable from one of my functions. I'd like to use this same session variable in a JavaScript function.

Could I call a session variable created in ASP in a JavaScript function?

Here's what I'm doing....

I'm writing a pages HTTP_REFERRER into a session variable URL.

In ASP:
Session("URL")=Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFER ER")

I'm programming a JavaScript function that would alter a "#" hyperlink on a page to point to the Session("URL").

Can I call the Session("URL") in JavaScript?

Donna

Not directly ... but a hidden field is all the magic you need.

It's not just that javascript and asp are different languages; they run on different machines. So you can't just call a variable from one in the other. In .NET you'd serialize a class with the session variables to xml and do all kinds of fancy things. It's the same technique, only less complicated.

hiddenField1.Value = Session("URL");

and then

x = document.getElementById("hiddenField1").innerHtml

Actually I don't know exactly how it'd look on the javascript side ... something basically like that. I really need to learn a lot more js.

ForrestCroce,

Thanks. But is the example you gave for ASP or ASP.NET?

Also, what if I ran JavaScript from the server?

Donna

What a dope (me, that is)....

I can put this into ASP. But, what about calling JavaScript from the server?

DZ

I'm not sure I understand; what are you doing with javascript on the server? Normally it's used to program against the brower...

use <% Asp Code%> in javascript

Originally Posted by saadatshah

use <% Asp Code%> in javascript

I was gunna say just use something like

<script type="text/javascript">
var test = <% response.write SESSION VARIABLE %>;

that way when the page gets "compiled" on the server it will put the proper asp variable into the JS script for when that is run on the client computer