In this lesson we will look at how you can utilize the power of objects with VBScript. Adding the object to your web page using HTML Writing script procedures to respond to events that the object provides Adding Objects to Your Web Pages Since this is a VBScript tutorial, rather than an HTML tutorial, we will offer only a limited discussion of how to add an object to a web page. Once you have added a control to your web page, it can be configured, manipulated and responded to through its properties, methods and events. Properties are the characteristics of an object. They include items like a caption, the foreground color and the font size.
Methods cause an object to perform a task.
Events are actions that are recognized by an object. For instance, a command button recognizes an onclick event. The Script Wizard found in the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad can be used to identify events provided by a control, and to generate script to respond to these events. For the most part, you will be focusing on properties and events. An example of setting properties for a label control is shown in the following example.