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Asked: 2026-06-03T07:58:20+00:00

Is it possible, if one has a javascript variable like this: var myVariable =

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Is it possible, if one has a javascript variable like this:

var myVariable = "alert('BAM! It works!');"

to send it to an html page that has a script tag in, in other words, looks like this:
<script id="theScriptTag"></script>

and by ‘sending’ I mean going like this in the Javascript file:

getElementById("theScriptTag").innerHTML = myVariable;

Now maybe people normally don’t do this. If there’s another way to get a Javascript variable to an HTML page please don’t hessitate to tell. It’s difficult for me to explain why I would like to do it like this, only that I need to do it like this.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT…

From all the comments I can see this is some serious bad practice. Let me give you the over view and ‘bigger picture’ here… On the very same HTML page there is a form, and a div. Now right after a user fills out the form and submits it, it goes to the server and ‘custom javascript’ is generated depending on the variable the user selected. This custom javascript is then intended to go back to the client and execute. When it executes is creates/fills up a div element that then contains a google charts table (thus needed to get generated server side). The JS that needs to be executed looks like this:

var sendAttemptsChartTableData, sendAttemptsChartTable; 
google.load('visualization', '1', {packages:['table']}) 
 google.setOnLoadCallback(drawTable); 
 function drawTable() { 
sendAttemptsChartTableData = new google.visualization.DataTable();  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','smsGuid')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','attemptNo')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','response')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','error')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addRows(1)  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,0,'092A49AA-E2EF-46D3-A83E-0932B17B649A')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,1,'1')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,2,'<aatsms><submitresult action="enqueued"     key="2066317199" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317200" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317201" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317202" result="1" number="0833756610"/></aatsms>')  
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,3,'')  
sendAttemptsChartTable = new  google.visualization.Table(document.getElementById('sendAttemptsTable')); 
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(sendAttemptsChartTableData);   
sendAttemptsChartTable.draw(view, {showRowNumber: true, allowHtml:false}); 
google.visualization.events.addListener(sendAttemptsChartTable, 'select', smsSearchHandler); 
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Based on your edit I understand your form sumbission results in a custom script. Would a JSONP-like solution work? Basically you can create a script tag in your current document, pointing its source to a server side script that processes the form and returns the code.

    A basic example:

    function getScript(){
  /**process form, generate params**/
  var nwScript = document.createElement('script');
  nwScript.src = '/myscriptsrc/somescript.php?'+[generated parameters];
  document.body.appendChild(nwScript);
}
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