Hi!

Can anyone tell me if and how it is possible to pass the contents of an asp vbscript variable to a javascript variable ?

As I'm familiar with javascript I don't want to abandon it when I use asp but I would like to use vbscript session and application variables to add some multi-user functionality to some scripts.

I know its possible to use javascript scripts within asp files and even write out asp vbscript variables within a javascript section of code but it would be very useful if the <%=variable%> could somehow be used by javascript.

As asp seems to fit in well with html I thought it might be possible to assign the variable to a form field and then read it somehow from there. (Either by using location.search in a response page after the form has been submitted or by reading the form field with javscript in the usual way). I haven't been able to make either of these work.

Failing this - does jscript have anything equivalent to session and applicationvariables and if so is it be possible to pass the variables to javascript in this case ?

Thanks

Hi there,

I am not sure I completely understand your requirements. Should all this be happening client side? Or when you say VBScript do you actually mean "server side ASP VBScript" and when you say JavaScript do you mean "client side JavaScript"?

There is a big difference between the two; you cannot directly access server side variables from client side code and vice versa. If you elaborate a bit about what exactly you want to do, I can give you some more useful advice or help.

Cheers,

Imar

Hi PL,

Thank you for your personal message, but could you please post replies here instead of e-mailing me directly? The whole idea of a forum is to create a centralized location for questions and answers.... ;)

If you need to pass values of variables to client side JavaScript, try something like this: This puts the words Test Value into the client side variable, so it ends up like this:

  var MyClientSideVariable = 'Test Value';

From this point on, you can the variable as you normally would.

If you need to roundtrip the client side value back into the server side variable, you need to put it in a field (text or hidden for example) and then submit the page back to the server.

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
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Re the example script for assigning ASP server side variable values to client side Javascript variables.

<!-- Server Side ASP Code<%
  Dim MyServerSideVariable
  MyServerSideVariable = "Test Value"
%>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var MyClientSideVariable = <%MyServerSideVariable%>';
</script>


The above code does work but with one small change.

var MyClientSideVariable = '<% =MyServerSideVariable%>';

I know it looks funny with two = like a double assignment but
as you can see, the first equals is a javascript assignment and the
second is an asp ‘output’. I couldn’t get this to work for a
while because some of my opening and closing tags were in the
wrong place. Something which seems to be not uncommon !

Anyway – thanks. It works now.

Right, my bad. I must have typed this message to quickly.

You are absolutely right. The first = is required by the client side JavaScript, while the other is a shortcut for Response.Write.


Sorry about that.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
While typing this post, I was listening to: Right As Rain by dEUS (Track 7 from the album: Worst Case Scenario) What's This?