passing a variable with html in the same page

NeilF · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Hi,

I did a search but did not find the answer to what I am looking for.

I have a web page that contains downloadable files. The base URL is the same for all of the files. What I want to do is use a variable for the base URL and somewhere near the top of the page enter what the URL is. This would be hardcoded as the URL changes. I don't want to have to hard code the URL for all of the files. Can this be done in HTML without a scripting language?

Neil

itunes66 · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 184

are you wanting all links to go to a portion of a url and part is changed

e.g.
<base href="urlhere/folderhere/">
<a href="picname">

NeilF · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Hi ituness66,

What I basically have is

<A href="http://www.mySite.com/rpms/apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm">apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm</A>

what I want is

<A href=variable"/rpms/apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm">apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm</A>

And then declare the varible somewhere that will hold the http://www.mySite.com as this is the part that is subject to change.

Neil

itunes66 · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 184

what do you mean by variable

NeilF · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Somewhere in the page I want to say that myURL = "http://www.mySite.com"

Then I want to append it to the A href statement to make something that resemebles this

<A href=myURL+"/rpms/apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm">apache2-2.0.53-nl.i586.rpm</A>

A variable is a name that you give to an imaginary space that holds information that can be called when you need it. I'm not sure if HTML is capable of providing a simple variable to hold a URL or not. That is why I asked the question here.

I can develop the page with php but would prefer to just keep it HTML

Neil

itunes66 · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 184

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

unless you are using server-side scripting then go with the base href that has already been posted.

NeilF · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Won't the base url tag affect all hyperlinks in the page? If that is the case then I can't use it. Some hyperlinks on the page will have a hardcoded hyperlink.

Neil

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

then use Server-Side scripting Wink

NeilF · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Hi degsy,

If I wanted to use server side scripting I wouldn't have asked the question. So far none of the answers have answered my original question which was "Can a variable be passed in a HTML page?"

Neil

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

Then no. HTML is not a scripting language that can pass variables.