Hi all,

This is my first post, I hope someone out there can help. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I'm missing to include the value of a session variable in a <a href> tag.

Here's the code in question:
<% if Session("SourceOther") = "" Then %>
    <a href="prescreening.aspx" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image13','','images/ov_qualify2.jpg',1)"><img alt="Do you or a loved one qualify? Find out now" src="images/ov_qualify1.jpg" width="218" height="42" id="Img2" name="Image13" border="0"></a>
    <% else %>
    <a href="<%prescreening.aspx?s= & Session("SourceOther")%>" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image13','','images/ov_qualify2.jpg',1)"><img alt="Do you or a loved one qualify? Find out now" src="images/ov_qualify1.jpg" width="218" height="42" id="Img3" name="Image13" border="0"></a>
<% end if %>

I've tried different combinations of the href="<%prescreening.aspx?s= & Session("SourceOther")%>" line, but to no avail. Many thanks for the help.

-Orcabelle

O.o While it is possible to code ASP.NET like this, I am not sure why you would want to. At first glance I thought you had posted Classic ASP code in the .NET forum that, however, doesn't seem to be the case.

Anyway the problem in your code is this:
<a href="<%prescreening.aspx?s= & Session("SourceOther")%>"

it should be:
<a href='prescreening.aspx?s=<%=Session("SourceOther" )%>'>foo</a>

Also, you could make this a lot more readable by doing it in a code behind (for the sake of simplicity I am going to omit your Javascript)

page.aspx
<asp:HyperLink id="hl" runat=server" Text="foo" />

page.vb
If Session("SourceOther") = "" Then
    h1.NavigateUrl = "prescreening.aspx"
Else
    h1.NavigateUrl = "prescreening.aspx?s=" & Session("SourceOther")
End If

Much nicer ^^


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Awesome! It works. Thank you so much for your speedy reply. As for the code behind, that's where I was headed next. Thank you again.

-Orcabelle

Glad you got it working.

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