anything simpler than document.write() ?

jArgHA

i'm porting over a college project ( current version can be viewed online at http://www.thegalwaysky.com/starcheck/ ) from ASP to a pure client-side JavaScript application.

i was wondering if there is a simpler way of writing variables within the body of an html document than every time having to use:

<script language="JavaScript1.5">
document.write(myVar);
</script>

asp and php have useful shortcuts for writing the values of variables within the html body, eg. <%= myVar %> for ASP. can something similar be done with JavaScript ?

cheers,
jAH

Time Magazine

Try

var d.w = document.write;

then try d.w.(myVar);

Alternatively make a function, e.g. x(myVar), whose command is simply to document.write(). So you get <script>x(myVar)</script> each time. It's a little easier.

jArgHA

cheers banana,

the x(myVar) function sounds good although i thought there may have been a shortcut for getting rid of the <script> tags also (as in ASP/PHP). ps nice website you've got there.

grma,
jAH

Dun

The javascript tags/source can't be removed because the browser runs the javascript on the client computer, whereas PHP/ASP is processed on the server. Angry Banana's is probably the neatest way of handling what you're doing.