How can I open a new window using location.href but with vbscript

Question

I have a very old app that the scripting language is Vbscript, I nned to open a new window with location.href. How can I do that? is it possible?

Answer 1

Assuming it's using VBScript as an alternative to JavaScript for client-side scripting then the DOM API is identical.

That said, you don't use window.location to open a new window, you use it to change the location of the current window.

You open a popup window with window.open . In VBScript I believe it's Window.Open (note the casing, but VBScript is case-insensitive so it shouldn't matter):

Sub OpenNewWindow

    Window.Open "http://somewhere", "_blank"
End Sub

• VBScript doesn't have parentheses for Sub ( void ) method calls as there is no return value.
• VBScript only uses double-quotes ( " ) to delimit strings

Answer 2

You can't. The location object supplied by browsers is for accessing the location of the current window.

If you want to create a new window, you have to use the open() function.