Please suggest how can write c# to control browser to go to url and auto fill in specific element
Why don't you use WebBrowser Control in C#? Drag the Control from the Toolbar to your Form. Then do webBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.example.com/bla");
fill in the element you want like this: webBrowser1.Document.getElementById("yourID").innerHTML = "some content";
hope this helps,
Alex
Use WatiN project to open browser, go to specific page and do the appropriate. Primarily this is a web testing automation tool, but you could (ab)use it for other things as well.
http://watin.sourceforge.net/
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[edit] It is a requirement that the webpage spawn and open in IE and allow user manual interaction after the programmatic actions have completed.[/edit]
I've seen a lot of code examples online about opening webpages or filling in webpage textboxes and getting a return value without ever opening them visibly.
I would like to open a webpage in IE, fill in a few textbox buttons
and then click the submit button and view the results visibly.
I am able to do this with a dll called Selenium, but I do not want to use a 3rd party application and it seems that WebBrowser() should be able to do this?
I can post my failed code examples if that would help.
Thanks.
Maybe this qould fit better as a comment, but I don't have enoigh reputation.
Do you know how HTTP-Forms work?
It would probably be easier to send a HTTP-Request to the target of the form you want to fill, including the parameters you would like to fill into the form.
So you don't need any WebBrowser or similar, just a simple HttpWebRequest object, where you specity the target, the method (very likely POST) and the data you'd like to send.
You can use the webbrowser control in Winforms. It is possible to access every DOM object of the website using the control. No need to open the IE externally.
You just need to specify the webbrowser URL as your link.
Then, fill the textboxes with code,
BrowserID.Document.GetElementById("TextboxID").SetAttribute("Value", "NewVaue")
Also, you can click on the button using InvokeMember("click").
There are lots of stuff using WebBrowser. You can learn it here.
Is possible to make the .Net Webbrowser control render form elements, like buttons, input text, with winform elements appearance? Using the visual styles of OS to look like an native Windows application not an page displayed in IE?
It is not possible configure or to supply custom rendering for buttons and input controls in IE - without CSS you get what browser decided to use as default.
It is possible to style buttons/input elements with CSS pretty much whatever way you want.
I am not entirely sure what you want to get. Possible you can render the entire form as it is in the broswer. WPF let you embed winform in the browser:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31429/Embedding-a-NET-WinForms-Application-in-an-Interne
It is not possible as #Alexei Levenkov Informed.
But I recommend you to have look over this link where the web browser is created with C#.
So I want to make a htmlpage in a xaml-window. I searched the net, but the only thing I found was how to edit the text, but not how it is shown in the page. I want to create (or use, if it already exists) a toolbox for html. and i want to put this in a xaml-window so I can edit the output of a piece of html code. In the toolbox may be for example: inputfield,image, table
anyone who knows how to do this?
Correct me if I am wrong, if you want to render a HTML page in WPF application, you can use WPF WebBrowser Control.
First of all be specific weather you are working on wpf or silverlight... I don't know much about wpf, but for silverlight try this.. http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/13910/157537.aspx
I have an Internet Explorer window open. The title of this window will always be "test123"
how do I save the source of the contents of the window as an HTML file?
Please note that the process should not be to open a URL and read the HTML into a variable. I absolutely HAVE TO do it the way I described since I need to login to a site to be able to view the HTML that I want to save.
**if it makes it easier to do this through my winform and putting a webbrowser control on it, that is fine as well.
You can attach to virtually any Windows app, using managed code and the UI Automation classes. Not a lot of people know about this stuff.
Microsoft shipped a class library and runtime that allows applications to automate other Windows on the system. You can do things like click buttons, read textboxes, activate menus, and so on. Here's a quick intro.
It should be relatively simple to attach to an IE Window, and then programmatically tickle the File...Save As... menu option.
I did this the other day for a Paint.NET app. It took much less time that I thought it would.
But I agree it's probably easier to use a WebBrowser control in a regular app, to programmatically retrieve content. You could also use the System.Net.WebClient class to do it, if you don't need to show the HTML content.
If you embed a WebBrowser control inside of your WinForm you can do this:
webBrowser1.Navigate("http://StackOverflow.com");
string pageHtml = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("html")[0].InnerHtml;
This will return all of the HTML in the page navigated to.
I have a .net (3.5) WinForms application and want to display some html on one of the forms. Is there a control that I can use for this?
Yep sure is, the WebBrowser control.
I was looking at the WebBrowser control but couldn't work out how to assign (set) the HTML to it...?
EDIT: Found it - Document Text
what about the browser control? a bit heavy, but at least you'll get an accurate rendering.