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C#/WPF: interaction with web browser control?

Is it possible to interact with the source code of a local or remote page in real time through the use of the WPF browser control.

A simple example of what I mean would be where the user can click a button that will bold the selected text. Sort of like a WYSIWYG HTML editor but using the browser control.

Is there a way to interact with the source code like this with the same power you have with JavaScript. Would one have to set up a system to parse the selected web page and then modify its code and then reopen the new code in the browser control to simulate the experience of real time editing?

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You have full DOM access through the webbrowser control, so the answer is yes. However, the webbrowser control is not a wpf control but a winforms control, and in order to use it you would have to use the wpf winforms container control.

klausbyskov  2009-12-12 23:28:32
No, there's a WPF WebBrowser control as well, as of .NET 3.5 SP1. (It wraps the same underlying ActiveX control though; just doesn't require WinForms interop.)
itowlson  2009-12-12 23:29:44
To add to Klaus' answer, the way to get at the DOM is via the Document property.
itowlson  2009-12-12 23:30:49
Is using the winforms container considered to be hackish?
caltech  2009-12-12 23:36:34

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