Investment Strategy - ETF Prospectus [Member] - Vanguard High-Yield Active ETF	Jan. 31, 2025
Prospectus [Line Items]
Strategy [Heading]	<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Principal Investment Strategies</span>
Strategy Narrative [Text Block]	The Fund invests primarily in a diversified group of high-yielding, higher-risk corporate bonds—commonly known as “junk bonds”—with medium- and lower-range credit quality ratings. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in corporate bonds that are rated below Baa by Moody’s Ratings; have an equivalent rating by any other independent bond rating agency; or, if unrated, are determined to be of comparable quality by the Fund’s advisor. The Fund may not invest more than 20% of its assets in any of the following, in the aggregate: investment-grade debt securities, U.S. Treasury securities, convertible securities, preferred stocks, and fixed and floating rate loans of medium- to lower-range credit quality. The Fund’s high-yield bonds and loans mostly have short- and intermediate-term maturities. The Fund may invest in derivatives, such as forward contracts, futures contracts, options contracts, and swaps.

Investment Strategy - ETF Prospectus [Member] - Vanguard High-Yield Active ETF

Jan. 31, 2025

<span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Principal Investment Strategies</span>

The Fund invests primarily in a diversified group of high-yielding, higher-risk corporate bonds—commonly known as “junk bonds”—with medium- and lower-range credit quality ratings. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes in corporate bonds that are rated below Baa by Moody’s Ratings; have an equivalent rating by any other independent bond rating agency; or, if unrated, are determined to be of comparable quality by the Fund’s advisor. The Fund may not invest more than 20% of its assets in any of the following, in the aggregate: investment-grade debt securities, U.S. Treasury securities, convertible securities, preferred stocks, and fixed and floating rate loans of medium- to lower-range credit quality. The Fund’s high-yield bonds and loans mostly have short- and intermediate-term maturities. The Fund may invest in derivatives, such as forward contracts, futures contracts, options contracts, and swaps.