Using VBScript with Internet Explorer 10 or Older

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition

∟Using VBScript with Internet Explorer 10 or Older

This section provides tutorial example on how to embed a VBScript code in a HTML document to be executed by Internet Explorer 10 or older on the local machine.

Internet Explorer (IE) is a Microsoft application that can be used a Web browser to view Web pages. IE also supports a VBScript host environment that allows you to embed VBScript code into source code of Web pages - HTML documents.

VBScript code embedded in HTML documents will be executed while IE is rendering HTML documents on the browser window. This is also called client side scripting, because script code is executed on the client machine instead of the server machine.

To add VBScript code into your HTML documents, you need to use the "script" tag with the "language=vbscript" attribute. Inside the "script" tag, you can place any number of VB statements. Here is the syntax of adding VBScript code in HTML documents:

... (HTML tags)
<script language=vbscript>
   ... (VB statements)
</script>
... (HTML tags)

Now let's try to write our first VBScript code in a HTML document.

1. Open the Notepad to enter the following HTML document:

<html>
<body>
<script language="vbscript">
   document.write("Hello world! - VBScript")
</script>
</body>
</html>

2. Save the HTML document as hello_vb.html.

3. View the HTML document with IE 10. You should see the following message in the IE window:

Hello world! - VBScript

Congratulations. You have successfully written a VBScript code for the host environment supported in IE!

What happened here was:

We have added a "script" tag in our HTML document, hello_vb.html.
We included a simple VBScript code inside the "script" tag.
The VBScript code calls the "document.write" function, which is a function provided by the IE host environment to insert a text string into the HTML document.
We ran IE to view hello_vb.html and got exactly what we expected.

Note that:

If you are using IE 11, you need to follow the next tutorial to turn on ActiveX support.
If you are using other Web browsers, like Edge, Chrome, or Firefox, you will see a blank page, because they do not support VBScript.