> I have a JSP page that loads applet.
>
> Which has a large number of parameters, with one of them needing to be
> entered in manually and not by default.
>
> This parameter is an ID that people will enter in.
>
> eg.
>
> <APPLET blah blah blah..........>
>
> <PARAM NAME=anID VALUE="">
>
> </APPLET>
>
> Above is an example of what it currently accepts
>
> I wish to have the param name something like the following
>
> <PARAM NAME=anID VALUE=---aValue passed from somewhere----->
>
> my thoughts on the matter was to
>
> prompt the user to enter in a value and capture that in a variable
> eg.
> var aString = prompt("What is the ID")
>
> and then use 'aString' in the paramater, but this did not seem to work.
>
> even when i changed the parameter to JavaScript having the line something
> like
>
> document.write("<PARAM NAME=id VALUE=" + aString + ">")
>
> the parameter was passed as a blank string.
>
> Please help
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris Irvine
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