We want to get XPath of highlighted text from a web page. How to do, pls guide us.
Currently we are using GeckoFX layout engine to display web page. Its a windows application using VB.Net
We have to get selected text/object full html tag ..
ex: If I an selecting a list item which is under a body and div tag the I have to get like this \bodydivulli
I have been at it for few weeks now and just learning XML and VB but seems like I hit a road block. I tried a few different attempts at doing this and I have no problem displaying the XML file on a webpage using the xpathnavigator class. But then i needed to format into an html table so i took another route and just added the xmldatasource with a formview. So here is my code for that
<oriondata station='GiftShop'>
<meas name="GiftShopTime">2011/02/08 16:39:01</meas>
<meas name="GiftShopItemNumber">6</meas>
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I'm trying to select all nodes with text that contain a certain word (ex: Company) because the word needs to have a register mark.
Here is part of the XHTML (this <p> is inside a table cell).
<p>
<strong>
<a style="color:#0E5A8B; text-decoration:none" target="_blank" href="http://www.trekk.com">
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My goal is to just select the 2nd one, the <span> tag and am not sure why <p> tag is also being selected. If it selects <p>, but why wouldn't it also select the <strong> or <a>, and why not the <table> or <td> that contain the <p>?
I'm trying to write an application that will basically copy highligthed text from internet explorer and manipulate it.I was just wonder how I could send highlighted text to a string in my program. It will work a lot like copy/paste such as
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View 6 Repliescreate an application that when i highlight a text (outside the application (like a word text) ) and i click on control + f shows a message box with the highlighted text......i want something to look like the attached picture
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View 3 RepliesI have a text box. I need to get extract the highlighted and copy that to another text box. User will highlight it after typing.
View 2 RepliesHow to create an application that when I highlight a text (outside the application (like a word text) ) and I click on control + f shows a message box with the highlighted text. Iwant something to look like the attached picture.
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I am using Vb.Net 2005's stock datagridview.What I am trying to achieve is for the user to drag the mouse across some text within a cell and have it show the number of letters as they are being highlighted.I thought that this would not be too difficult of a task, but once I realized it that it was I started perusing the Internet for quite some time to no avail.
View 4 RepliesWhen using PrintForm1 to print out a text file the printed text comes out highlighted. How to fix this problem?
View 10 RepliesI have code to go through a document highlighting letter by letter:
Private Sub Timer1_Tick( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick If Not RichTextBox1.SelectionStart < RichTextBox1.TextLength Then
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This is my source that I created
Private Sub FontToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontToolStripMenuItem.Click
FontDialog1.ShowDialog()
RichTextBox1.Font = FontDialog1.Font
End Sub
Private Sub ColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ColorToolStripMenuItem.Click
ColorDialog1.ShowDialog()
RichTextBox1.ForeColor = ColorDialog1.Color
End Sub
When I want to change color and font in richtextbox, all of text in textbox is changed. How to make source code that change color and font in text that we highlight.
Extracting highlighted text from a text box
View 1 RepliesI have two forms, one has a textbox on it the other also has textbox on it. Form1's textbox is the source for text found. form2's textbox contains the search criteria.
This the code that I quickly bashed out to do a find functionality of a textbox. The problem is the last line of code. If I use the last line of code the the Source Form.s textbox is highlighted however if the Source Form is Maximised then the Find form will be hehind the Source Form. I don't want that to happen. Secondondly if I dont use the last line of code then the the text isn't seleceted at all.
Private Sub DoFind(ByVal xControl As Control)
Dim x As Boolean = TypeOf xControl Is TextBox
Static Dim lastfoundPosition As Integer = 1
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so one of my error message in my program looks like this MessageBox.Show("You forgot to select a Location!" & ControlChars.CrLf & "You must select a workshop and location then click Add workshop button," & ControlChars.CrLf & "repeat the process few times and" & ControlChars.CrLf & "then click Calculate button to calculate the grand total", "Warning", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Warning)and i want the texts "Add workshop" and "Calculate" bold or highlighted when the message box appears, how do i do that?
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View 14 RepliesIs it possible to take certain text from a web page and paste it into a Rich Text Box in Visual Basic? I'm going to use this http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=mlb to generate a bunch of keywords and I want to highlight just the keyword paste it into the Rich Text Box. How can I do this? Also a better way to describe this is almost scraping the keywords through all that code and putting them into the richtextbox.
View 3 RepliesIm know 2 days working on solving this problem but seems that i found my master
I need to get some text from this web page ==>> eToro Open Book
I want to use the trade feed for my program to analyse the sentiment of the markets.
I used the browser control and the get element command but its not working.The problem is that whenever my browser starts to open the page I get java scripts errors.
What I'm looking to acquire is ip addresses from a webpage which contains the information.url...I'm basically looking how to make vb.net visit that webpage and save the IP Addresses it gets from that webpage.
View 1 RepliesOk, so I'm making a domain checker which bulk checks if domains are available using this website:
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It inserts, the names, then goes to the next page, but after that, I have no idea how to get the parsed code from the page. This is the page's Html code:
<head><title>Bulk Domain Name Search and Free Bulk Domains Availability Checker !!</title></head>
<body>
<center>
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Need to get the number of search results from a google search.
need the text displayed at the top left of a google query/search page which tells you how many results were found.[code]...
I have VB 2008...
How would I go about connecting to a webpage and grab a string of text from it?
The page i'm talking about only has 1 line of text so I don't have to search through it or anything...
how can we get value of text from webpage.
the html is
<form name=netcustomer method="POST">
<tr>
<td width="60%">
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i use this code to grab a web page, im only wanting the body of the page(text) nothing else.but it returns everything i think
Function GetPage(ByVal pageUrl As String) As String
Dim s As String = ""
Try
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i have an aspx page with vb.net back end. in that page i get names and url's from the database depending on different conditions. My requirement is that when i get the url, the code should then use that url and have that webpage in a small preview form on my existing aspx page. so basically i have a table as follows -
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I want to extract text from a web page, I used the web-browser component but I found only to load the webpage, how can I read text from the webpage?
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