position of vbscript in js causing errors

Beemer Biker

I put together a few lines of vbscript so I could dump the contents of a
string to my C drive. It worked fine in a small test.htm where I put the
vbscript at the top of the file. It failed to work (no error message) in my
large program where I needed to dump out the stuff. I did get an error
message from FrontPage 2003 but it was not informative.

When moved the vbscript to the bottom of the page it worked fine!

========start of page======
This is a snippet of the code showing the position at the top of the source
code.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScr ipt" TYPE="text/vbscript">
Function vbWriteText(str , strFilename)
dim objFSO, objTextFile
set objFSO = CreateObject("S cripting.FileSy stemObject")
set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenText File(strFilenam e,2,true,0)
objTextFile.Wri teLine(str)
objTextFile.Clo se
end Function
</SCRIPT>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<SCRIPT language=javasc ript>
function make()
{
....a lot of js code...
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.5700.6" name=GENERATOR> </HEAD>
<BODY>
....lot of html...
....
*** reference to make() in body of the page ***
....
</BODY></HTML>
====end of page====

When using MS FrontPage 2003, selecting Preview indicates an error occured
at the reference to "make()" That is the first javascript function in the
javascript code. So it would seem that putting the vbscript before the
javascript caused the body of the page to have trouble finding make() ?
Currently the page works fine with the vbscript at the bottom. I like to
keep functions at the top when I code and I dont see why it could not go
there. I do not understand why my small test program worked but the larger
one didnt (unless I moved the code to the bottom). The larger one is much
more complicated.

...thanks..
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Martin Honnen

Beemer Biker wrote:

I put together a few lines of vbscript so I could dump the contents of a
string to my C drive. It worked fine in a small test.htm where I put the
vbscript at the top of the file. It failed to work (no error message) in my
large program where I needed to dump out the stuff. I did get an error
message from FrontPage 2003 but it was not informative.

When moved the vbscript to the bottom of the page it worked fine!

If you use more than one script language in a HTML document with
Internet Explorer then the language or type attribute of the first
<scriptelemen t in your document determines the script language IE uses
for event handlers. Thus if you have <script type="text/vbscript"as
the first script element in the document then your event handlers by
default need to be written in VBScript and not JavaScript.
IE additionally allows you to specify the event handler script language
for any element with e.g.
<input language="JavaS cript" onclick="f();"
but that is not a good idea on the web in general.
IE furthermore allows you to specify the script language using e.g.
<input onclick="javasc ript: f();"
but in general on the web that is not a good idea either.
If you really think you need JavaScript and VBScript in one HTML
document and you want JavaScript to be the language IE uses for event
handlers then put a <script type="text/javascript"firs t in your
document before all other <scriptelements .

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Oct 12 '06 #2

David Berry

What was the error message? Is this an ASP page or HTM page? If it worked
at the bottom of the page why move it?
"Beemer Biker" <js*******@swri .eduwrote in message
news:12******** *****@corp.supe rnews.com...

>I put together a few lines of vbscript so I could dump the contents of a
string to my C drive. It worked fine in a small test.htm where I put the
vbscript at the top of the file. It failed to work (no error message) in
my large program where I needed to dump out the stuff. I did get an error
message from FrontPage 2003 but it was not informative.

When moved the vbscript to the bottom of the page it worked fine!

========start of page======
This is a snippet of the code showing the position at the top of the
source code.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScr ipt" TYPE="text/vbscript">
Function vbWriteText(str , strFilename)
dim objFSO, objTextFile
set objFSO = CreateObject("S cripting.FileSy stemObject")
set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenText File(strFilenam e,2,true,0)
objTextFile.Wri teLine(str)
objTextFile.Clo se
end Function
</SCRIPT>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<SCRIPT language=javasc ript>
function make()
{
...a lot of js code...
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.5700.6" name=GENERATOR> </HEAD>
<BODY>
...lot of html...
...
*** reference to make() in body of the page ***
...
</BODY></HTML>
====end of page====

When using MS FrontPage 2003, selecting Preview indicates an error occured
at the reference to "make()" That is the first javascript function in
the javascript code. So it would seem that putting the vbscript before
the javascript caused the body of the page to have trouble finding make()
? Currently the page works fine with the vbscript at the bottom. I like
to keep functions at the top when I code and I dont see why it could not
go there. I do not understand why my small test program worked but the
larger one didnt (unless I moved the code to the bottom). The larger one
is much more complicated.

..thanks..
--
=============== =============== =============== =============== ===========
Beemer Biker joestateson at grandecom dot net
http://TipsForTheComputingImpaired.com
http://ResearchRiders.org Ask about my 99'R1100RT
=============== =============== =============== =============== ===========

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