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I'm working on an HTML Application for Windows 8.1, and, as our office soon will use Windows 10, I'm wondering if MS Edge and Windows 10 still support HTA.

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No. However, you can still run legacy HTAs in IE9 mode. For new development using web technologies, Microsoft is recommending a switch to Windows Store Apps.

Here's what Microsoft had to say about HTA support in IE10 and later:

The Internet Explorer team is increasingly focused on standards compliance, and markup-based behaviors are not part of modern web standards. In IE10 mode support for markup based behaviors has been removed, and this includes hta:application.

In addition, for HTML-based applications the focus for Windows 8 and beyond the team's focus is on Windows Store applications.

I suspect that an HTA would work in Windows 10, but only in IE9 mode. (EDIT: It does!) It would be a major shift if Microsoft built Edge with HTA support.

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gilly3
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    +1 voted up, but, I had to reread the question / answer (including the Microsoft link) a few times. Summing up: HTA work in Windows 10? Yes (but only in IE9 mode). HTA work in Microsoft Edge? No (since that's IE10+ but with HTA support removed). – Stephen Quan Jun 29 '15 at 05:33
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    I agree, the answer should read: "**Yes**, Windows 10 supports HTA, but it runs in IE9 compatibility mode." – Heinzi Apr 07 '17 at 09:21
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    I respect your disagreement with my answer. Please don't edit my answer to read "Yes" where I have "No". Rather, add your own answer (it's not too late). Feel free to downvote my answer. I'm sorry that it's confusing to you, but I don't feel that allowing ancient HTAs to continue to work on Win10 is the same thing as "supporting" HTAs. If Win10 supported HTA, I would be able to code a standards-compliant web app and have it run in a privileged container with file-system access and all the other goodies that HTAs enjoy. To be stuck in IE9 mode is the very definition of dropping support. – gilly3 Aug 01 '17 at 21:28
  • Windows 10 supports HTA and defaults to IE7 mode, but you can specify the mode all the way up to IE11. – Herohtar Nov 06 '18 at 20:39
  • @Herohtar, when you specify IE11 mode, it ignores the `` element, so you are unable to access the filesystem, etc. I'm not sure what the point would be without that. See also: http://web.archive.org/web/20130925022744/https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/785055/hta-application-tag-does-not-work-in-ie10 – gilly3 Nov 07 '18 at 20:08
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    @gilly That's only partially true; the `` element is ignored, but you can still access the filesystem. It is also possible to semi-workaround the ignored tag by not setting the compatibility and using `NAVIGABLE="yes"`, then navigating to a file that does have the compatibility set to IE11. – Herohtar Nov 07 '18 at 20:19
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Late post but after testing, yes, HTA are fully support by Windows 10 and IE/Edge Browser. After declaring the doc type (important) at the top of your hta file (), set the meta tag in the head dom-node. Something like :

  • <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=9" />
  • <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=10" />
  • <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=11" />
  • <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge" />

JScript run on 4 versions, VBS run on 9 and 10.

Please refer to this site for more detail (keyword : compatible) : -https://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_hta.php#Quirks

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