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Sep 16.2003

Hi, I need to pass a string from one page to another when a link is clicked. When the link is clicked I need a new page to load and for some javascript in the new page to use a string, passed from the old page (this will be the name of an image) to load the image. This will save me from having a page for each large image in my system. Any ideas to do this? I had thought of redirecting to blah.html?imname=bob and then picking up that attribute in the next page. I know this is doable in JSP but I need to do it in either Javascript or HTML.

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Matt.

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@Khalid_AliSep 16.2003 — There are fw options for you to use.

suppose image name

var img = "images/flakes.gif";

and the url to the next page is

var url = "pages/nextpage.html";

  • 1. apend the image name to the url of the next page and direct to the next page


    • window.location.href = url+"?imageName="+img;

    2.if the next page is a child window opened from the parent using

    window.open

    then you can use access these values irectly from child

    top.opener.url

  • 3. is to use cookies, set cookie at first page and then read cookie at the next page
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    @krugosauthorSep 16.2003 — Suppose I take option 1 of those, how do I then get the image name once I'm on the new page?

    Matt.
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    @Khalid_AliSep 16.2003 — Suppose there is only one image name that you are passing to the next page.

    var searchStr = window.location.search;

    the above willreturn everything after the ? mark in the URL

    and since we know that search string format is

    imageName = images/flakes.gif

    now we need to remove the variable name and the = (comparison sign)

    var imgName = searchStr.substring(searchStr.indexOf("=")+1,searchStr.length);

    lol..I have not tested it so am hoping it will give you the correct results..
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