Including VBScript Codes as External Files

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Including VBScript Codes as External Files

This section provides a quick description of how to save VBScript codes into separate files and include them into HTML documents with 'script' tags. A tutorial example is provided on calling a function stored in a separate VBScript file.

Sometime, if you have a large amount of VBScript code that needs to be shared by multiple HTML documents, you can store the VBScript code in a separate file, and use the "script" tag to retrieve this tile.

The syntax of the "script" tag to retrieve a separate VBScript code file looks like this:

<script type="text/vbscript" src="VBScript_file_URL">
</script>

To test this feature, I wrote this VBScript code and saved as a file, Hello_World_Function.vbs:

function printHello()
   document.write("Hello World!")
end function

Now I can modify my HTML document in the previous section to retrieve this file with a "script" tag:

<html>
<!-- Hello_World_Include.html
 - Copyright (c) 2015, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved.
-->
<head>
<title>printHello() Function in an Include File</title>
<script type="text/vbscript" src="Hello_World_Function.vbs">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<script type="text/vbscript">
   printHello()
</script>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

Of course, the output of the modified VBScript page will be the same text: "Hello World!".

While testing this "src" attribute of the "script" tag, I also notice that the shorthand form of the empty tag does not work:

<script type="text/vbscript" src="VBScript_file_URL"/>

You must use the close tag </script> explicitly!

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition

Variant Data Type, Subtypes, and Literals

Arithmetic Operations

Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations

String Operations - Concatenation and Comparison

Variable Declaration and Assignment Statement

Expression and Order of Operation Precedence

Statement Syntax and Statement Types

Array Data Type and Related Statements

Array References and Array Assignment Statements

Conditional Statements - "If ... Then" and "Select Case"

Loop Statements - "For", "While", and "Do"

"Function" and "Sub" Procedures

Built-in Functions

Inspecting Variables Received in Procedures

Error Handling Flag and the "Err" Object

Regular Expression Pattern Match and Replacement

scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL Library

Creating Your Own Classes

►IE Web Browser Supporting VBScript

VBScript Support in IE Web Browsers

Including VBScript Codes with HTML "script" Tags

►Including VBScript Codes as External Files

DOM API - The "document" Object

DOM API - The "window" Object

Event Listeners and Objects

'vbscript:' Pseudo-URL Addresses

IIS ASP Server Supporting VBScript

WSH (Windows Script Host)

References

Printable Copy - PDF Version

Including VBScript Codes as External Files - Updated in 2015, by Dr. Herong Yang