HTA:APPLICATION Element | HTA:APPLICATION Object

Enables an extended object model for building HTML Applications (HTA).

XML Syntax

<HTA:APPLICATION
    APPLICATIONNAME=value
    BORDER=thick | dialog | none  | thin 
    BORDERSTYLE=normal | complex | raised  | static  | sunken  
    CAPTION=YES | NO
    ICON=value
    ID=value
    MAXIMIZEBUTTON=YES | NO
    MINIMIZEBUTTON=YES | NO
    SHOWINTASKBAR=YES | NO
    SINGLEINSTANCE=YES | NO
    SYSMENU=YES | NO
    VERSION=value
    WINDOWSTATE=normal | maximize | minimize
>

Members

HTA Members

Remarks

You can create an HTA by saving an HTML page with an .hta file extension. However, to take advantage of the applications-oriented functionality discussed in this reference, you must include the HTA:APPLICATION tag and position it within the paired HEAD tag to take effect.

You can turn off the scroll bars for the application window by including SCROLL="no" in the BODY tag.

Example

This example retrieves all the properties exposed by HTA:APPLICATION.

Sample Code

<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>HTA Demo</TITLE>
    <HTA:APPLICATION ID="oHTA"
     APPLICATIONNAME="myApp"
     BORDER="thin"
     BORDERSTYLE="normal"
     CAPTION="yes"
     ICON=""
     MAXIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
     MINIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
     SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
     SINGLEINSTANCE="no"
     SYSMENU="yes"
     VERSION="1.0"
     WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
    >

  <SCRIPT>

  /* This function also retrieves the value of the commandLine property,
     which cannot be set as an attribute  */
   
  function window.onload()
  {
     sTempStr = "applicationName  = " + oHTA.applicationName + "\n" + 
                "border           = " + oHTA.border          + "\n" +
                "borderStyle      = " + oHTA.borderStyle     + "\n" + 
                "caption          = " + oHTA.caption         + "\n" +
                "commandLine      = " + oHTA.commandLine     + "\n" +
                "icon             = " + oHTA.icon            + "\n" +
                "maximizeButton   = " + oHTA.maximizeButton  + "\n" +
                "minimizeButton   = " + oHTA.minimizeButton  + "\n" + 
                "showInTaskBar    = " + oHTA.showInTaskbar   + "\n" +
                "singleInstance   = " + oHTA.singleInstance  + "\n" +  
                "sysMenu          = " + oHTA.sysMenu         + "\n" + 
                "version          = " + oHTA.version         + "\n" + 
                "windowState      = " + oHTA.windowState     + "\n" ;
  
     oPre.innerText = sTempStr;  
  }
  </SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY SCROLL="no">
  <PRE ID=oPre>  </PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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