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Use server-side application variables to drive client-side scripts

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You can use serverside variables to drive client-side javascripts. Server-side variables get processed and the results output by the time the page is rendered, so the value of the variable can be used in client-side functions.

In an ASP application I’m working with, I wanted a different tooltip to show up on each tab, depending on what the tab title was. There is a server-side variable called “tabs[i].title”. So I created a little client-side function to test the value of the title on each tab.

 
<script>
var tabName ;

function whichTab(tabTitle){
   if (tabTitle == 'Summary'){
   tabName = Summary;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Plan Details'){
   tabName = PlanDetails;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Certifications'){
   tabName = Certifications;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Transcript'){
  tabName = Transcript;
}
}
</script>
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