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Feb 11.2004

How do i pass

location.search.substring(1)

as a variable to another page? Something like the following.

<a href=”myPage.cfm?myVars=location.search.substring(1)”>Click Here</a>

Thanks in advance!!

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@fredmvFeb 11.2004 — Welcome to the forums.

If you have server-side available &#8212; which it appears you do (ColdFusion) &#8212; there should be a way to do this without JavaScript. You should not generate any content whatsoever using JavaScript; especially when there are more practical methods available.
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@weaponXauthorFeb 11.2004 — Thanks for the welcome.

Allow me to explain my issue a bit more.

I have a coldfusion application that launches HTML pages. These HTML pages can't use any server side technology.

I want in js to grab some vars that are passed from the original cfml page to the html to be passed back to the coldfusion app upon close of a button.

The cfml page will then parse the string sent back which will look something like: myVars=123&steven

Hope that made some sense! or maybe there is a better way in js that I don't know about.

Thanks for your time!
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@fredmvFeb 11.2004 — I see; here's how it'd be done:&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
//&lt;![CDATA[
document.write('&lt;a href="foo.cfm?' + location.search.substring(1) + '"&gt;bar&lt;/a&gt;');
//]]&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
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@weaponXauthorFeb 11.2004 — sweet!

I didn't realize that was the syntax for adding that to the url. That did the trick.

Really appreicate such a quick, accurate resposne!

Have a great day!
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@fredmvFeb 11.2004 — You're very welcome &#8212; I hope you have a great day yourself. ?
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