I have in a variable (var lan= urlParam('language')) the selected language. I want to pass this language as parameter (without using PHP) in a url in an "a" tag, like this:

<a href=".aspx?languageCode=lan"> 

but it doesn't work.

I am waiting for your answers. Thank you a lot.

I have in a variable (var lan= urlParam('language')) the selected language. I want to pass this language as parameter (without using PHP) in a url in an "a" tag, like this:

<a href="http://hotelsbined.sitewish.gr/HotelNameSearch.aspx?languageCode=lan"> 

but it doesn't work.

I am waiting for your answers. Thank you a lot.

• javascript
• html

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• You want to dynamically, using JavaScript, add a new GET parameter to every link that is on the page. Is that correct? – Jan Hančič Commented Sep 14, 2011 at 13:38

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Your url is inside a string, so it won't put the value of your variable, but just the string "lan".

Give an ID to your link, so you can take it and change its url with javascript.

<a id="foo" href="http://hotelsbined.sitewish.gr/HotelNameSearch.aspx">

Then, with JS

document.getElementById('foo').setAttribute('href', 'http://hotelsbined.sitewish.gr/HotelNameSearch.aspx?languageCode=' + lan);

If I understand correctly, you can just use document.write to print the link and add the variable as the language parameter.

<script type="text/javascript">document.write("<a href=\"http://hotelsbined.sitewish.gr/HotelNameSearch.aspx?languageCode=" + lan + "\">link description</a>");</script>