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Free online VBScript code formatter and beautifier. Automatically standardize indentation and line breaks for your VBS scripts.
Overview
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This formatter takes VBScript source text and produces a reorganized text result. Beautify mode can split colon-separated statements onto separate lines, adjust recognized block indentation, set spacing, and optionally normalize keyword case. It is useful when a script is compressed onto long lines or when you want a more consistent layout before reviewing it.
VBScript belongs to the Visual Basic family, but behavior in one Visual Basic environment does not prove compatibility in every VBScript host. Microsoft’s Visual Basic statement guide describes related constructs such as colon-separated statements and line continuation. Treat that as syntax context, not as a complete VBScript specification or a guarantee that this formatter recognizes every host-specific form.
Beautify aims to make the text easier to inspect. Choose 2, 4, or 8 spaces, or tabs, for indentation. You can enable keyword-case normalization and choose whether to remove comments. In beautify mode, comments are retained by default.
Minify aims for compact text. In this mode, comments are removed by the current formatter behavior. Do not choose it when comments contain maintenance notes you need to keep. Neither mode runs the script, resolves dependencies, or performs a full syntax check.
Paste the VBScript text into the source area. Keep an untouched copy if the script is important.
Select Beautify for readable indentation or Minify for a compact result. In Beautify mode, choose the indent style and comment and keyword options.
Inspect the result, especially single-line blocks, continuation lines, inline comments, and strings. Copy the output only after checking it against the original.
Test the edited script in its intended host before relying on it. Formatting is not execution or compatibility testing.
A compact input such as Dim n:n=2:If n>0 Then:WScript.Echo "ready":End If can be expanded into separate lines and indented around the recognized conditional block. The result is easier to scan, but you should still verify the block and any host-specific syntax yourself.
Dim n
n = 2
If n > 0 Then
WScript.Echo "ready"
End IfBeautify a dense snippet to expose likely block structure, then compare each branch and loop with the original before editing.
Use a shared indentation choice to make layout consistent, while keeping formatting-only changes separate from logic changes where possible.
Minify only when concise text is useful and comments can be discarded; preserve the source file as the reference copy.
No. The formatter uses recognizable text patterns and is not a complete parser, interpreter, or host-specific validator. Test the script in the environment where it will run.
A complex one-line conditional, incomplete block, continuation, or host extension may not match the formatter’s structural patterns. Retain the original and inspect or simplify the relevant lines before using the output.
No. The minify path removes comments. Use Beautify with comment removal off if you want comments retained, and keep a backup either way.
Beautify offers 2, 4, or 8 spaces and a tab option. Other styles can be adjusted in an editor after you review the result.
Whitespace and line breaks can matter when source uses continuation syntax or host-specific conventions. Formatting can also make a structural guess that is not equivalent to the author’s intent. Compare important scripts with the original, preserve comments that explain behavior, and test key paths in the intended host before deployment.
Guide
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Paste plain VBScript source. Beautify lets you set indentation width and spaces or tabs, keyword case, and comment removal. Minify is a separate compacting mode and removes comments. Copying or downloading the result does not imply that it has passed a runtime check.
Use cases
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Beautify can separate recognizable statements so a maintainer can review control flow one line at a time.
Agree on an indentation style, format a working copy, and make sure whitespace churn does not conceal logic changes.
Q&A
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No. It rearranges text using recognized patterns. Run tests in the intended VBScript host.
Some syntax and host-specific forms may not be recognized. Restore from the original and inspect those lines rather than assuming the output preserves their meaning.
Beautify retains them by default unless comment removal is selected. Minify removes comments.
Notes
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Do not treat this output as a security review, syntax certificate, or proof of behavior equivalence. Keep the original source available. Verify continuation lines, string contents, comments, and host-specific statements, then test the result in its intended environment.
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