Windows phone webbrowser Control is Blank? - c#

Im trying to open a URL(Some link) in Webbrowser Control.
The link return a html page which contain Google Graph , but my Webbrowser Control is Blank and dont display any thing on it. It works fine on WebBrowserTask and on my pc so their is no problem in this link but it is blank on webBrowser Control Any Idea How i can Do this ??
public GraphPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
webBrowser1.Navigated += new EventHandler<System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs>(Browser_Navigated);
webBrowser1.Navigating += new EventHandler<NavigatingEventArgs>(Browser_Navigating);
loadPage(getBaseUrl(graphType));
}
private void loadPage(String url )
{
webBrowser1.IsScriptEnabled = true;
webBrowser1.Source = new Uri("Link");
}

As mentioned by user112553, set IsScriptEnabled true. Can be done under the XAML-code or in the code-behind with
XAML
<phone:WebBrowser x:Name="Browser" IsScriptEnabled="True" />
Code-Behind
Browser.IsScriptEnabled = true;

I encountered a similar situation, with Windows Phone 8 and a HTML page using JQuery.
IsScriptEnabled=true wasn't enough (the page didn't render properly).
I solved adding to the html page a
doctype declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
...

Seems like the WebBrowser component refuses to render HTML5 pages without explicit defining the document-type.
Since it's a common problem with rendering pages in IE<11 when not defining this tag, the cause of why my scripts didn't run could be many and most likely a reference to a HTML5 tag which was not handled correctly.
ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh779632.aspx
Since windows phone 8.0 is based on Internet Explorer 10, it makes sense, the confusing part with debugging this behavior is that Internet Explorer on your phone renders the page perfectly. Still the WebBrowser component will not.
If this is documented in the API specifications, it should be easier to find, because I was not able to find any information that would point me to this solution at all, this would be mostly because my pages was rendered in WebViews for Android and IOS without any problems.
Thanks to Antonio Pelleriti for providing this solution.

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private string rightUrl;
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can access the DOM or html and scripts returned in at least text format
is compatible with WPF
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set WebBrowser.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
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private const string DisableScriptError = #"function noError() { return true;} window.onerror = noError;";
private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs e)
{
InjectDisableScript();
}
private void InjectDisableScript()
{
HTMLDocumentClass doc = webBrowser1.Document as HTMLDocumentClass;
HTMLDocument doc2 = webBrowser1.Document as HTMLDocument;
IHTMLScriptElement scriptErrorSuppressed = (IHTMLScriptElement)doc2.createElement("SCRIPT");
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scriptErrorSuppressed.text = DisableScriptError;
IHTMLElementCollection nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("head");
foreach (IHTMLElement elem in nodes)
{
HTMLHeadElementClass head = (HTMLHeadElementClass)elem;
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}
}
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<object classid="" type="application/pdf" width="400" height="300" id="pdf1">
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</object>
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<object type="application/pdf" data="myPdfFile.pdf" class="yourPdfClass" width="550px" height="800px"/>
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First I set the "target platform" property under the build tab in visual studio to x86 because as it turns out, 64bit IE can't render PDFs.
Second I used the embed tag instead of the object tag, because IE requires you to use "classid" and all sorts of Active X stuff you don't want when you use the object tag.

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