Hi, apologies if this thread has been discussed before.

I have done VB before but not for a while, i have created an ASP login page but if the login is invalid then i wish to create a popup saying its incorrect with an ok only.

 the code i have used is:

MsgBox("Incorrect username or password please try again",0,"Incorrect Login")

so you understand the background -

i have an if statement where if the login is correct then the user is redirected and if it is invalid then the user is redirected back to the login page but i would like a popup of some sort explaining the incorrect details.

am i going about this the right way?

thanks

You cant use MsgBox in VBScript as that spawns a system message box and since the VBScript is executed on the server not the client if it were possible to use the MsgBox command, it would open a message box on the server, not the client.

Instead do something like this:

Dim sJavaScript
sJavaScript = "<script language=javascript>"
sJavaScript = sJavaScript & "alert('Invalid username and password!');"
sJavaScript = sJavaScript & "</scr" & "ipt>"

Response.write(sJavaScript)

That will spawn a javascript alert box on the client.

For asp type questions, you would be best off staying in the ASP forums where you were earlier, this is more or less for VB (Windows apps) and such.

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i see, i guess it was blind faith hoping vb woukd work!