Actually, I'm pretty sure the answer is:  you can!

Attached is a working example I just put together (with comments) showing
you how to use WDDX to pass variable data from JavaScript to ColdFusion and
back again:

         <<wddx_example.cfm>> 
And here are the files from the WDDX SDK that are required to make the
script above work:

         <<wddx.js>>     <<wddxDes.js>> 
Hope this helps!

Claudia

> ----------
> From:         Douglas Smith[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:         Friday, March 02, 2001 4:11 PM
> To:   Fusebox
> Subject:      Re: OT: WDDX and Javascript
> 
> This is a common "my brain is fried" question...you are mixing up the 
> client and server execution.
> 
> And the answer is: you can't.  Javascript variables don't exist until they
> 
> run on the browser.  CF variables only exist when the page is executing on
> 
> the server.
> 
> You can write your javascript from the server using CF in your javascript,
> 
> but the only way for the browser client to put something back to CF is to 
> submit a form (or window.locate to a page with a URL variable in it).
> 
> At 07:42 PM 3/2/01, Marsh, Jeffrey B wrote:
> >My brain is fried today.
> >How would I get the value of a javascript variable (integer) into a CF
> >variable (attributes.variable)?
> >Thanks.
> >--Jeffrey
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