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I have a webpage that has several links that link to the same page, but depending on the link the user clicks I need to pass different info to that other page. I know how to do this in PHP through the URL and using $_GET[] but I am unsure how to do it using only javascript/jquery and html. Any idea? Thanks.

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  • You could use a hashbang (#!) to store data, but that's a little sketchy. Commented Jul 14, 2014 at 23:41
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    javascript is stateless between page changes, choices are cookie, localStorage or url params. Javascript can set or get any of those Commented Jul 14, 2014 at 23:43
  • localStorage is persistent as Hell. Consider using sessionStorage if one doesn't like the query string solution. Commented Jul 15, 2014 at 0:50

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You can attach a query string to the link, just as you would to use $_GET with PHP, but retrieve the query string on the target page using JavaScript, as explained here: How can I get query string values in JavaScript?

Edit: I've looked some more at the page to which I linked. There's a lot of very general code there, but if you use an = sign and only one parameter, you can split off the parameter with a JavaScript split:

<a href="target.html?from=A">Came from A</a>

target.html's 'location.search' will contain "?from=A" and a simple split will do it.

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Also, note that this approach does not require JavaScript on the sending page, only on the target page. (If you have JavaScript on the sending page anyway, well, that's a horse of a different color.)

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