Passing parameters to JavaScript files

I'd recommend not using global variables if possible. Use a namespace and OOP to pass your arguments through to an object.

This code belongs in file.js:

var MYLIBRARY = MYLIBRARY || (function(){
    var _args = {}; // private

    return {
        init : function(Args) {
            _args = Args;
            // some other initialising
        },
        helloWorld : function() {
            alert('Hello World! -' + _args[0]);
        }
    };
}());

And in your html file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="file.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
   MYLIBRARY.init(["somevalue", 1, "controlId"]);
   MYLIBRARY.helloWorld();
</script>

You can pass parameters with arbitrary attributes. This works in all recent browsers.

<script type="text/javascript" data-my_var_1="some_val_1" data-my_var_2="some_val_2" src="/js/somefile.js"></script>

Inside somefile.js you can get passed variables values this way:

........

var this_js_script = $('script[src*=somefile]'); // or better regexp to get the file name..

var my_var_1 = this_js_script.attr('data-my_var_1');   
if (typeof my_var_1 === "undefined" ) {
   var my_var_1 = 'some_default_value';
}
alert(my_var_1); // to view the variable value

var my_var_2 = this_js_script.attr('data-my_var_2');   
if (typeof my_var_2 === "undefined" ) {
   var my_var_2 = 'some_default_value';
}
alert(my_var_2); // to view the variable value

...etc...

Another idea I came across was assigning an id to the <script> element and passing the arguments as data-* attributes. The resulting <script> tag would look something like this:

<script id="helper" data-name="helper" src="helper.js"></script>

The script could then use the id to programmatically locate itself and parse the arguments. Given the previous <script> tag, the name could be retrieved like this:

var name = document.getElementById("helper").getAttribute("data-name");

We get name = helper

Check out this URL. It is working perfectly for the requirement.

http://feather.elektrum.org/book/src.html

Thanks a lot to the author. For quick reference I pasted the main logic below:

var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
var myScript = scripts[ scripts.length - 1 ];

var queryString = myScript.src.replace(/^[^\?]+\??/,'');

var params = parseQuery( queryString );

function parseQuery ( query ) {
  var Params = new Object ();
  if ( ! query ) return Params; // return empty object
  var Pairs = query.split(/[;&]/);
  for ( var i = 0; i < Pairs.length; i++ ) {
    var KeyVal = Pairs[i].split('=');
    if ( ! KeyVal || KeyVal.length != 2 ) continue;
    var key = unescape( KeyVal[0] );
    var val = unescape( KeyVal[1] );
    val = val.replace(/\+/g, ' ');
    Params[key] = val;
  }
  return Params;
}