Html variable insert?

**HomeStar** · 04-28-2005, 10:02 PM

This should be easy for someone that knows what there doing.

want to create a file called

country.js
<body>
<script language="javascript">

</script>
</body>

and then pass the "4" to many different html pages

<script language="javascript">document.write(albania);</script>

but it's not working.

**jscheuer1** · 04-29-2005, 01:10 AM

You might show us what you've tried. For something simple like that, the sending page can have this on it:

HTML Code:

<a href="nextpage.htm?var1=albania">Click here to go Albanian Style!</a>

Then on the recieving page have:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var text = unescape(window.location.href);
function delineate(str) {
theleft = str.indexOf("=") + 1;
theright = str.indexOf("&");
return(str.substring(theleft, str.length));
}
var sentInfo=delineate(text)

document.write(sentInfo);

</script>

**mwinter** · 04-30-2005, 05:56 PM

Originally Posted by HomeStar

[...] want to create a file called country.js
<body>
<script language="javascript">

</script>
</body>

Perhaps I'm reading too much into the above, but a script should never contain bare markup. The content of country.js should just be

Code:

var albania = 4;

included in the head element with

HTML Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="country.js"></script>

and then pass the "4" to many different html pages

If you're looking to include the same content in several different documents, you might want to look into server-side include (SSI) support.

Originally Posted by jscheuer1

function delineate(str) {
theleft = str.indexOf("=") + 1;
theright = str.indexOf("&");
return(str.substring(theleft, str.length));
}

I really do wish you'd stop posting that particular function. Please appreciate how badly written, and inflexible, it is. It may be fine in situations where only one name/value pair exists in the query string, but that is hardly a robust, future-proof solution.

Mike

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