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Can Session Variables be read by client-side JavaScript performing form validation, or are these variables only available to VBScript?

On a login asp page I create a session variable vPwd that is set to the login password.

On the asp page where the user can change their password I tried to accomplish the following in the client-side validation:

var curpwd = Session(“vPwd”)
if (theForm.CurrentPassword.value != curpwd)
{
alert(“You did not enter the password with which you loged in.”);
theForm.CurrentPassword.focus();
return (false);
}

When I ran the code, I received an error message regarding ‘object expected’ pointing to the line with the If.

To test, I changed
var curpwd = Session(“vPwd”)
to
var curpwd = “edc2839”

The error message stopped appearing.

Is there a way I can get JavaScript to read Session variables?

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You can use an ASP tag in the Javascript block – like:

var curpwd =

HTH

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I tried your answer, but it doesn’t seem to work. Perhaps I misunderstood your coding.

The following code displayed the word ‘Welcome’ in the browser window.

var vWelcome = “Welcome ”
document.write(vWelcome)

But when I changed the code to the following, not only did I get an error message, but ‘Welcome’ was not displayed.

var vWelcome = “Welcome ”
var vWelcomeName = <%=Session("vName")
document.write(vWelcome+vWelcomeName)

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You’re going to have to post again. Be sure not to use Comment tags in your code or it will appear hidden (as in your previous post. Use a space so the browser doesn’t hide the code: < — or < – –

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Check for the closing %> in your ASP page. It’s not in your post.

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