[ic] set variable using Javascript???

Tue Jul 3 16:47:00 2001

Wouldn't that form have to be submitted for that value to be passed 
to the next page?

At 13:22 -0700 7/3/01, Dan B wrote:
>At 03:20 PM 7/3/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>I am working on a site that has a dhtml menu. We have three 
>>versions of the navigation and when someone first comes to the site 
>>we redirect them to an index page which sets a menutype variable.
>>
>>The problems is if someone come to the site directly to a page 
>>other than the index this variable never gets set. Detecting which 
>>browser they have is no problem but can I set a variable using 
>>javascript?
>
>You can set [value]'s via javascript.  E.g., use a hidden form value.
>
><INPUT type=hidden name=browsertype>
>
><SCRIPT>
>         function set_browser(form) {
>                 form.browsertype.value = "Netscape";
>                 return 0;
>         }
></SCRIPT>
>
>You also need something to call set_browser(this.form), probably 
>best from <BODY ... onLoad()> or whatever it is.
>
>on the next page (or in mv_check) you can access it with:
>
>[value browsertype]
>
>I hope that helps,
>
>Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, danb@cyclonecomputers.com
>
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