如何在建立表时执行Javascript？

Question

I have a table being built in HTML (using ASP), and it's stepping through a recordset. As it steps through the recordset, it creates a new row for the html table and fills it with data.

The problem I'm having is that it's using numbers that can be 10 or 11 digits long, and I want to format it with commas. I have a formatNumbers function that works excellently. However, basically what I need to do is this:

<td><script>formatNumber(<% = RS("total_rolled_lineal_ft")%>,0,0,true);</script></td>

I'm getting an Object Expected error. If we take a line from the executed HTML, here's what it looks like: <td><script>formatNumber(10843537,0,0,true);</script></td>

Any clue what's causing my error, or, if I'm doing it completely wrong, how to fix it?

Also, formatNumber returns a string, in this case 10,843,537 .

Answer 1

Thanks to @nnnnnn, I ended up using VB's FormatNumber() and came up with this

<% = FormatNumber(RS("total_rolled_lineal_ft"),0,true,true,true)%> , which works excellently.

Answer 2

I have never used straight ASP so maybe I am missing something in this answer.

Technically you can not execute Javascript while the ui is rendering, browsers tend to be a single threaded affair and will do one thing or the other.

But I would suggest that instead of binding the table directly to a record set you transform the record set into a ViewModel type class in the code behind.

You would then perform this conversion as you are building your ViewModel.