Please understand the fundamental principles of what you're doing:

ASP code (enclosed in <%%>) is executed first on the server.  This generates
a stream of HTML which is sent to the browser on the client machine.  Once
the page is loaded in the client, thats when client-side code, usually
javascript, can then be executed on the client, normally in response to user
actions.

Session variables exist on the server, and cannot be modified from the
client.  You need to submit a form back to the server, then in the ASP which
processes the form you can set session and application variables.

The reason that javascript stops working with your code is that all the
browser receives is 

= "test";

which is not a valid statement.  If the session variable already had a value
in it, then the browser would receive

someval = "test"

in which case it would treat "someval" as the name of a variable - also
nonsense.

I appologise if my initial statement came across as cheeky, but I've seen
questions like this come up time and time again on these lists.

(There are other technologies such as remote scripting and xmlhttp which
would allow you to execute server code without having to leave the page in
the browser, but I'll not go into that just now...)


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Lott [mailto:bryan.lott@a...]
Sent: 24 January 2002 17:15
To: JavaScript HowTo
Subject: [javascript_howto] setting session variables in javascript


I would very much like to set a session variable in a Javscript funtion. I 
have tried many things but with no luck. The following doesn't give me an 
error, however it stops the javascript from functioning.

This is what I have tried resently.

<%=session("CellNumber")%> = "test";

thanks
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