Cold Fushion Question

[donafams]

example;
passing variable "newvariable" using hyperlink
"http://test.com?newvariable=test"...

with vbscript i can retrieve the variable with "variable = request.querystring("newvariable")

How do I do that with Cold Fushion?

[Wade]

#url.newvariable#

And it must be within a <cfoutput></cfoutput>

[donafams]

how would it be done with javascript?