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Capturing App.Settings key on aspx  (vb) page and then passing to external javascript on an onclick event.

Juan Ocasio
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Hello All:

I have a classic web forms asp (vb) web application that I am working with.  I have one page that I would like to embed a value from my web.config's app.settings.  this page references an external js file.  What I am ultimately trying to do is pass the value from app.settings to the js file on an onclick event.  The app.settings key holds the value of the current server, so I have transforms set to update the web.config with the correct server name when the application runs.

So in my app.settings I have:
<add key="CurrentServer" value="ProductionServer"/>

What I was trying to do was something like this:
<input type="hidden" id ="CurrentServer" value="<%$ AppSettings: CurrentServer %>" />

My reasoning behind this approach is then in the external file, I could target this input by doing something like:

let currentServer = document.getElementById('CurrentServer').value

When I run the page, I receive the following error:
Literal expressions like '<%$ AppSettings: CurrentServer %>' are not allowed. Use <asp:Literal runat="server" Text="<%$ AppSettings: CurrentServer%>" /> instead.

Can someone please steer me in the right direction?  Would a server control be more appropriate?  If so, how would I interrogate the rendered control using JavaScript once the onclick even is fired that triggers the javascript code?

Many thanks for any assistance!

Juan
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Just in case someone needs an answer to this question, I think I've found the solution.  I did use a server control
<asp:HiddenField runat="server" ID="CurrentServer" Value="<%$ AppSettings: CurrentServer %>" />

And was about to get the value in my js file using:
var currentServer = document.getElementById('CurrentServer').value;