Getting the back/fwd history of the Windows Forms WebBrowser Control
In C# WinForms, what's the proper way to get the backward/forward history stacks for the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser? ...
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Blocking dialogs in .NET WebBrowser control
I have a .NET 2.0 WebBrowser control used to navigate some pages with no user interaction (don't ask...long story). Because of the user-less nature of this application, I have set the WebBrowser control's ScriptErrorsSuppressed property to true, which the documentation included with VS 2005 states will [...]"hide all its dialog boxes th...
IE Automation Book or Resource?? using MSHTML/ShDocVw VB.Net
Can anyone recommend a book or a website that explains Internet Explorer Automation using VB.NET? I understand that mshtml and ShDocVw.dll can do this, but I need a resource that will explain it to me. I want to read/write values as well as click buttons. The only book I have come across so far is .Net Test Automation Recipes. Is this t...
Not getting event arguments in IHTMLElement event handler
I've added a callback to an IHTMLElement instance but when the IDispatch::Invoke is called for the event, there are never any arguments (i.e. the pDispParams->cArgs and pDispParams->cNamedArgs are always 0). For example, I add a callback for an onmouseup event. From what I can tell, a callback for this event is supposed to receive a Mous...
How to disable Javascript in mshtml.HTMLDocument (.NET)
I've got a code like this : Dim Document As New mshtml.HTMLDocument Dim iDoc As mshtml.IHTMLDocument2 = CType(Document, mshtml.IHTMLDocument2) iDoc.write(html) iDoc.close() However when I load an HTML like this it executes all Javascripts in it as well as doing request to some resources from "html" code. I want to disable javascript...
Modifying Request/Response Streams in WebBrowser Control Using MSHTML
I need to find a way to get at the request/response streams inside of the webbrowser winforms control and see that it's not real intuitive. For example, I need to be able to modify post data when a user clicks a submit button. It looks like you have to register for some MSHTML COM events to do so, but am unsure which I need to subscribe ...
Make DOM element effectively read-only
I'm writing a .NET forms control to edit HTML using MSHTML. I am creating some custom elements and want to make them effectively read-only. I thought I could go about this by focusing on the entire element any time focus entered anywhere in that element but the HtmlElement.Focus() doesn't select the entire element and I don't seem to b...
Editing tables with MSHTML
Is there a way to create/edit a table using MSHTML without resorting to editing the underlying HTML? ...
Modify HTML in a Internet Explorer window using external.menuArguments
Hi all... I've a vb.net class that is invoked with a context menu extension in Internet Explorer. The code has access to the object model of the page, and reading data is not a problem. This is the code of a test funcion... it changes the status bar text (OK), prints the page html (OK), changes the html by adding a text and prints aga...
MSHTML: How can you clear the undo / redo buffer of MSHTML
I'm using a C# wrapper control similar to the WebBrowser control that contains the COM / unmanaged MSHTML control. I'm using this control in the edit mode which allows the user of the application to edit a a HTML document in a WYSIWYG manner. This control manages it's own undo / redo stack. How can I reset / clear it so that user will ...
How to determine direction of navigation from IE WebBrowser (IHtmlWindow2 or Javascript)
I'm uisng the WPF Web Browser control and when it fires the Navigating event, the event args always contain NavigationMode.New. It should be set to NavigationMode.Back if the user chooses to 'Go Back' from the web control. So its off to the COM ActiveX control underneath to determine the direction of navigation. I've been looking at I...
Embedded MSHTML: mouse wheel ignored
Dear StackOverflow community, In my VC++ application I have an embedded browser (MSHTML). It works fine and handles the mouse properly (for instance, clicks and selects are processed OK). However, mouse wheel rotations over the embedded browser do not have any effect. This is my problem. I am not very familiar with the internals of MSH...
Set focus to embedded MSHTML
Dear StackOverflow community, In my application I have an embedded MSHTML control. The problem is that I cannot set focus to this control. I can click, select, push buttons etc, but it won't accept keyboard input and mouse wheel notifications as a result. Even left-clicks on the control do not set the focus. (The question is related to ...
IE's getBoundingClientRect gives different answer in browser than in windows.forms.webbrowser - why?
Take the following html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Basic Layout</title> <style type="text/css"> html,body,div{font-family:Verdana} #Head{border-bottom:solid 10px #369} #Body{margin-left:200px;backgro...
How can I get a frame's content with mshtml?
Here's the issue: I have a hook in IE that reacts on WebBrowser.OnNavigateComplete2 event to parse the content of the document for some precise info. That document contains frames, so I look into the HTMLDocument.frames. For each one, I look into the document.body.outerHTML property to check for the content. Problem is, the string I'...
Can't set IHTMLEventObj2::fromElement
I'm trying to generate synthetic Javascript events in an Internet Explorer extension, and I'm having trouble getting the fromElement property to stick. Here's an excerpt of my code: MsHtml.IHTMLDocument4 doc4 = ... // the document object Object o = null; MsHtml.IHTMLEventObj2 eObj = (MsHtml.IHTMLEventObj2)doc4.CreateEventObject(ref o);...
How can I attach a .NET delegate to an mshtml event?
I'm working on an extension (BHO) for Internet Explorer, and having trouble attaching a .NET delegate to the mshtml objects to catch DOM events. I've tried using the events published by the IHTMLElementEvents2_Event, ... interfaces, and that works, but only if I specify the correct type for the DOM element whose events I want to catch. ...
What is the mapping between HTML elements and mshtml event interfaces?
There's a big ugly list of mshtml event interfaces on MSDN, but it leaves a lot of elements out. Is there a reference anywhere that will tell me how all of the HTML elements map to mshtml event interfaces, and what the hierarchy of mshtml event interfaces is? ...
Tools to reduce generated HTML size
I'm using google docs, and some templates we are using were created using MS-Office. The resulting HTML is fat and ugly, and the 500KB per doc limitation on google makes some cleanup mandatory. I was able to find redundant "style" attributes and move them to some CSS class, and rename the most redundant classes names to shorter ones, whi...