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possible to use hyperlink to call a vbscript sub? sumGirl 10-19-2004
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Posted by sumGirl on October 19, 2004, 10:46 am
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 Is it possible to use a hyperlink to call a vbs sub? I have seen folks
using javascript to do this, but I cannot make it work with vbs and I
need to.

Please no "you should use javascript" answers. Unfortunately I am
where I am and I have to use vbs.


Posted by Harlan Messinger on October 19, 2004, 3:14 pm
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> Is it possible to use a hyperlink to call a vbs sub? I have seen folks
> using javascript to do this, but I cannot make it work with vbs and I
> need to.
>
> Please no "you should use javascript" answers. Unfortunately I am
> where I am and I have to use vbs.

Where you are you are only allowed to write scripts that won't work in any
browser but Internet Explorer?

You'll find many messages in this forum about why you shouldn't use the

<a href="javascript: ...">

construction, but if that's what you're talking about, the corresponding
construction for VBScript is

<a href="vbscript: ...">

Type vbscript:msgbox("hello") into the Address line in IE and you'll see.



Posted by Philipp Lenssen on October 19, 2004, 5:51 pm
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sumGirl wrote:

> Is it possible to use a hyperlink to call a vbs sub? I have seen folks
> using javascript to do this, but I cannot make it work with vbs and I
> need to.
>
> Please no "you should use javascript" answers. Unfortunately I am
> where I am and I have to use vbs.

It sounds like you already know you shouldn't do this in 99% of all
circumstances, so I'll just provide you with the HTML (which is
actually using a function, not a sub, but it may be what you need):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML
1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Calling VBS on the Client-Side</title>
<script type="text/vbscript">
function helloWorld
msgbox "Hello World"
end function
</script>
</head>
<body>

<a href="vbscript:helloWorld">Click me!</a>

</body>
</html>

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