Is it possible to load HTML content into the HTMLDocument object without having to use the WebBrowser control? I have an html file stored locally that I want to parse in order to find out which checkboxes are on and which are off.
All of the examples I've found use the Webrowser. It just seems convoluted to have to use the WebBrowser in order to get to a DOM object.
WebBrowser Example.zip IntroductionBecause the WebBrowser control that we use in .NET is a COM control, not all of its uses are straightforward and some of them (even those which seem like they should be easy) require that we dip into our Interop toolbox in order to properly implement them.
A perfect example of this is loading HTML content into the WebBrowser from memory, rather than a file or a URL. Anyone who's ever used the WebBrowser control before is familiar with the Navigate2 method, which tells the control to load content from a URL (or path to a file). Loading HTML content from memory, however, is a rather elusive practice because of the many steps involved in making it work.
MSHTML.HTMLDocumentYou might notice that the WebBrowser control exposes a "document" property. The object returned by this property can be coerced to the type of "mshtml.HTMLDocument" (you must add a reference to MSHTML to your project in order to make this work) as follows:
Code:Dim clsDocument As mshtml.HTMLDocument = CType(WebBrowser.Document, mshtml.HTMLDocument)
(NOTE: You will have to add a reference to the COM library MSHTML to your project to make this compile)
Once we create an instance of HTMLDocument, a whole new world opens up to us, providing all sorts of DOM access to the content of any given Web page.
If we were to create our own HTMLDocument object from memory, we could use the "write" method to write HTML content to the document from a string variable, like this:
Code:'initialize the document object within the HTMLDocument class... clsDocument.close() clsDocument.open("about:blank")
'write the HTML to the document using the MSHTML "write" method... Dim clsHTML() As Object = {sHTML} m_clsDocument.write(clsHTML) clsHTML= Nothing
WebBrowser Control ImplementationUsing the HTMLDocument returned by the "document" property of the WebBrowser control, however, is not as straight-forward. Because of the way that this object is created and initialized in memory (by the COM WebBrowser control), the "write" method fails when called as above. In order to write content to the HTMLDocument exposed by the WebBrowser control, we must first marshal the string value to a memory space that is compatible with COM. Once the string is properly marshalled, the COM interface IPersistStreamInit (implemented by the HTMLDocument class) must be used to pass the value into the object.
Interop DeclarationsIn order to pull all of this off, we must declare several Interop pieces, including an enumeration, a function, and two interfaces. The declarations for these pieces are as follows:
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I need to Read a HTML File and retrieve Tag value and attribute value.In HTMLDocument there is no LOAD function to load a html file,but there are methods like getElementByTagName.How to load a html file in htmldocument class?
View 5 RepliesI want to load some HTML into a webBrowser control, then operate a particular bit of code when it has finished loading.The code operates fine as long as I pause to wait for it to finish loading. If I just run the code without pausing, it sometimes messes up the display. webBrowser.Document Completed doesn't run after Document.write.I don't want to use webBrowser.DocumentText = "..." because that makes an annoying click sound every time it refreshes. A lot of people are annoyed by this. There are countless threads asking how to turn off the click, and using .write seems to be the only solution that doesn't require hacking the registry.
View 1 RepliesWHen we click on site whether left click or right....Control goes to IEDoc_MouseDown event,I just want to ask is that possible to know taht which element is clicked..Suppose we right click on link,is that possible to know it that link is clicked.
Public Class Form2
Dim WithEvents IEDoc As System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument
Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
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I'm able to retrieve the source code of a web page and store it in a string variable. I would like to cast that string variable into an HTMLDocument if possible, to make parsing its elements much easier.
View 5 RepliesI was trying to use HtmlDocument and a given url to pull in the html contents of a website to use. However there is no constructor for HtmlDocument and it's Url property is readonly. Is there any way to create an object that contains the entire DOM for a given url?
View 2 RepliesIm having a problem loading a html file to a webbrowser in a program im writing. What it does if I press a button or menu item a form is loaded and a html help file is loaded to the WebBrowser1. here is the code
Public Class frmWeb
Private Sub frmWeb_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim path As String
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I have a regular application form with a WebBrowser control.I have strung together a .htm file (from a regular text file) which I then assign to the WebBrowser control. In the html file, I have filenames mentioned.I am trying to string together the html in such a way as to give a clickable link or button that will parse into html and open the corresponding file in another WebBrowser control in VB.I have tried using VBScript and JavaScript to put a button in the html.As long as the function or sub I call is also in the same html document, it works, but I really need to transfer the control back into visual basic where I can do the heavy lifting I need to.can I just not do this as a regular VB application? Any way to do it without adding the complication of requiring ActiveX?
View 3 RepliesI need a progress bar to show the download progress of a file from the webbrowser control.
I want the default popout download window to not show and to show the progress bar
somewhere else, and show the time remaining. Basicaly what I want is for my info of the
window that shows download progress and info to show on the default window of my program.
Dim Page16 As String
Page16 = Application.StartupPath & "ResourcesHTMLPage16.htm"
WebBrowser16.Navigate(Page16)
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Is it possible to disable image loading on the webBrowser control? - So that pages load faster. I just want the HTML of the page to work with in my code - I don't wish for the page to be displayed. And I know that using httpwebrequest or webclient would normally be the best option for this kind of thing but I need to browse secure https pages and I don't know if that's possible with anything other than the webBrowser control.
View 21 RepliesI am using web browser control in one of my forms for displaying html files (local files). Before I load the next file I want to clear the webbrowser control of the previous page. I am trying the following method which I found while searching the net.
private Sub ClearWebBrowser(ByVal wb As WebBrowser)
Dim tempDoc As IHTMLDocument2 = CType(wb.Document.DomDocument, IHTMLDocument2)
tempDoc.write("")
tempDoc.close()
End Sub
I have added the reference for mshtml namespace in com tab. When trying to run the program, error is thrown like "Type 'IHTMLDocument2' is not defined. (BC30002)".
I have been tasked to do a project, and have been given a list of links from the client - what the Project needs to do is:1 - open google with a specific search phrase - no problem2 - look on that page for any links containing any member of the list of links, if found, invalidate the entry in the list, and auto-click the link, then go back3 - repeat for any other "finds" on that page4 - when done, auto-click on "Next" (no problem) and go back to step 2For now, I am not even attempting to auto-click the found link and go back, I am just listing all found links in a TextBox. The problem I am having is waiting for the next pages to load before looking for a match in the list of links. I tried using webBrowser.DocumentCompletedto set a Boolean - I tried testing WebBrowserReadyState in the DocumentCompleted event ar the code below gives the best results but it is inconsistent, meaning it completely misses some pages that I know have links on them that match.
View 6 RepliesGetting the html source from my webbrowser control. I'm trying to get the source in the DocumentCompleted event of the webbrowser. The code i'm using is this[code]...
View 3 RepliesI am currently trying to be able to set the HTML in a WebBrowser control. The bit that I am having the trouble with is that when I go to put the HTML in the WebBrowser control on Form.Load or Form.Activated the WebBrowser1.Document.Body is Nothing. This means when I try to do; WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerHtml = value I'm getting an exception as I am trying to use it.I have also tried setting the HTML on the DocumentCompleted event for the WebBrowser control, but that event doesn't fire when I load the form (to be honest I didn't think it would but it was suggested somewhere on the Internet).
View 2 RepliesI want to save an HTML document into my.resources, and then load it in webbrowser1.navigate when it is called to do so, but it seems when I save my.resources.myfile and call it with webbrowser1.navigate(my.resources.myfile) it wont navigate properly or read the html file properly. How can I have an html document be saved in my resources and load in a webbrowser???
View 1 Repliesis there a way in vb.net to make it so that if the html in a web browser control contains a certain word then on startup it will show a dialog box. Basically I want to create an update system in which when the update dialog box web browser control html contains the words "update available" then on start up the dialog box will show prompting the user to update.
View 4 RepliesI have a website that divided into 4 frames. I'm trying to create an application that will constantly run on my PC as a task looking for certain text in the HTML in a frame.When it finds the text it would alert the user by presenting a pop-up message. This is basically a monitoring website that checking network nodes. Instead of staring at the screen looking for critical messages I would like to be notified when there is an alert.
View 1 RepliesI have tried function like htmldocment.setAttribute() and webbrowser.document.body.style="font-size:34px"
it's not always working, why?
for example
Dim a As HtmlElement
a = wb.Document.GetElementById("tableID")
a.SetAttribute("border", "3px")
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I did a search in google, through my webbrowser control, and wanted to search the html of the google search results..
View 13 RepliesI am attempting to obtain the price from a DIV tag in this HTML:[code].......
I've tried a few different combinations to get the price. I imagine I have to use .InnerText, but I can't seem to figure out how to split up the tag in order to use .InnerText.
Ok you know how our web browsers like Internet Explorer or FireFox has the option to "Save Page As". Is there a way to do this using the Web Browser Control? I wish to save the HTML + Images that are displayed in my Web Browser Within my application. Or say if I go to a website and they have a dynamic image that keeps Changing is there a way to save that image that is displayed on the Web Browser control?
View 6 RepliesI have tried function like htmldocment.setAttribute() and webbrowser.document.body.style="font-size:34px"
it's not always working, why?
for example
Dim a As HtmlElement
a = wb.Document.GetElementById("tableID")
a.SetAttribute("border", "3px")
[Code]....
WHen we click on site whether left click or right....Control goes to IEDoc_MouseDown event,I just want to ask is that possible to know taht which element is clicked..Suppose we right click on link,is that possible to know it that link is clicked.
Public Class Form2
Dim WithEvents IEDoc As System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument
Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
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For example how do u delete on row in a table?how do you remove a <img /> entry?
View 4 RepliesFor example how do u delete on row <tr> in a table <table>?how do you remove a <img /> entry?
by remove means not just set the innerText to?
I'm probably missing something really simple or trying too much at once but it's 16:30 on a Friday afternoon and my head is wrecked Basically, I'm trying to build an application that takes out put from a database query as XML and uses XSL to transform it into HTML which is then displayed in a web browser controll on another form.
I thought I break it up into pieces so I decided to just create an XML file and an XSL stylesheet and read this into the web browser control but all I'm getting is <HTML></HTML>
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how to read HTML text box elements from the Web Browser control
View 2 RepliesI am using webbrowser control in my windows application(VS2003). Below is the code.
Sub LoadHtml(ByRef MyWebBrowser As AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser, ByVal sFileName As String) 'MyWebBrowser is webbrowser control added at design time on form and sFileName is .txt file with full path Dim sImgDir As String
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