How determine css text of each node in html - c#

How can I iterate over HTML nodes of a web page and get the CSS Text of each node in it? I need something like what Firebug is doing, if you click on a Node, it gives you complete list of all CSS Texts associated with that Node (even inherited styles).
My main problem is not actually iterating over HTML nodes. I am doing it with Html Agility Pack library. I just need to get complete CSS for each node.
p.s. I am sorry, I should have explained that I want to do this in C# (not javascript)

I found the following code snippet useful for all element in the page and 'CurrentStyle' property of them shows their computed style:
HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)axWebBrowser1.Document;
var body = (HTMLBody)doc.body;//current style
var childs = (IHTMLDOMChildrenCollection)body.childNodes;
var currentelementType = (HTMLBody)childs.item(0);
var width = currentelementType.currentStyle.width;
Note that according to my prev post axWebBrowser1 is a WebBrowser control.

If you want the current styles for an element, look into getComputedStyle(), but if you want the inheritance too then you may have to implement the style cascade. Firebug does quite a lot of work behind the scenes to generate what you see!

You can get the CSS text from the style attribute like this:
node.getAttribute('style')
Or if you want style you can iterate through the keys and values in
node.style
If you want to grab the entire computed style of the element and not just the CSS applied in the style attribute, read this article on computed and cascaded styles.

You can use WebBrowser control in C# to access the htm document object and cast its body tag as following:
HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)axWebBrowser1.Document;
var body = (HTMLBody)doc.body;
But before that you should add com refrence: MSHTML to you project.
here you could access body.currentStyle that show you all its styles that might be css or inline styles.

You can try for (property in objName) operator as seen here.

I'm not sure if you can simply get "all" CSS properties using JavaScript to be honest, you could look into the [DOMNode].currentStyle, [DOMNode].style and document.defaultView.getComputedStyle thingamajiggy's. They should contain the 'current' style they had. What you could then do is have an array of all CSS properties you want to test and simply loop them through a function of your own that gets the CSS property for everything using forementioned methods (depending on which browser). I usually attempt the DOMNode.style[property] first as this is "inline" javascript and always rules over everything, then I sniff if the browser uses the .currentStyle method or .getComputedStyle and use the correct one.
It's not perfect and you might need to clean up some things (height: auto; to the actual current height, some browsers might return RGB colours instead of HEX) etc.
So, yes, I don't know of anything prefab that you can use in Javascript.

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How can Selenium in C# locate this span based on its value?

I have been trying various locators and can't find a simple solution to locating the number (which is dynamic and changing each page load) inside this span in C# Selenium. I am just trying to locate the span itself to start with.
<span inventory="Livecount">129</span>
I get the NoSuchElement exception, i.e. unable to locate element.
Last context-related thing: this span and its number live inside of a widget, which I have been able to locate just fine. That widget doesn't have a unique class or id, but a custom tag-name, so I'm only able to locate it reliably using the FindElement(By.TagName("inventorySearch")), which works. If there was a way I could use a CSS selector to start with that widget element (the parent) - and then chain down to the span inside it (there's only one span in each instance, so it would be easy to locate), that would solve it. My problem there is, I don't know how to indicate tagname inside a Seleniums CSS selector (i.e. classes and Id's have their . # symbols - is there a tagname equivalent in C# Selenium? Thanks.
Answering the question in the title, it is possible to locate a <span> with the text '129 via XPath:
//span[text()='129']
However I suspect that this number will change, so you may also want to consider locating the <span> where its inventory attribute equals 'Livecount':
CSS Selector:
span[inventory='Livecount']
XPath:
//span[#inventory='Livecount']
Usage:
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("span[inventory='Livecount']"));
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//span[#inventory='Livecount']"));
Paraphrasing your last question, you asked if it's possible to use a CSS selector with a custom tag-name. This is also possible.
Given the following HTML:
<inventorySearch>
<span inventory="Livecount">129</span>
</inventorySearch>
To select the <span> within the <inventorySearch> element, use the following CSS selector:
inventorySearch > span
This is also possible using CSS
JQuery has a :contains pseudo selector
i.e. span:contains('129')
You will need to use the Selenium NuGet Support Package to get this functionality.
Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver.Extensions
This gives access to the Sizzle JQuery Selector Engine which provides the pseudo selector support.

Div visibility in javascript

i was working on some requirements of my project and one of the requirement was to hide/unhide a Div on client side(Project is in .net technology and div's visibility will be set on client side using JS)
Code Snippet:
var block = document.getElementById('Your_Div_Id');
block.style.display = "none"; //some where it works to hide
block.style.visibility = "hidden"; //some where it works to hide
my question is why?
This is just hit and trial. first one was not working in one place so I used second one.I could not got to know why...
In case you dont want to use jQuery, Make sure your Id of element is unique and is set properly in javascript code
you may also try writing the code in one line as below :
document.getElementById("element-id").style.display="none";
Remember that display: none and visibility: hidden are different.
The first one "delete" the node from the DOM, and the other nodes can take it place.
The second one just hide hide, but the node preserves it position and sizes.
Tip: Try to use jQuery
$("#foo").hide();

How to programmatically load a HTML document in order to add to the document's <head>?

We are supplied with HTML 'wrapper' files from the client, which we need to insert out content into, and then render the HTML.
Before we render the HTML with our content inserted, I need to add a few tags to the <head> section of the client's wrapper, such as references to our script files, css and some meta tags.
So what I'm doing is
string html = File.ReadAllText(wrapperLocation, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"));
and now I have the complete HTML. I then search for a pre-defined content well in that string and insert our content into that, and render it.
How can I create an instance of a HTML document and modify the <head> section as required?
edit: I don't want to reference System.Windows.Forms so WebBrowser is not an option.
I haven't tried this library myself, but this would probably fit the bill: http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/
You can use https://github.com/jamietre/CsQuery to edit an html dom.
var dom = CQ.Create(html);
var dom = CQ.CreateFromUrl("http://www.jquery.com");
dom.Select("div > span")
.Eq(1)
.Text("Change the text content of the 2nd span child of each div");
Just select the head and add to it.
I use the WebBrowser control as host, and navigate/alter the document through its Document property.
Nice documentation and samples at the link above.
Are you using MasterPages?
This seems like the most obvious use of them.
The MasterPage has <asp:ContentPlaceHolder>'s for all the points where you want the content to go.
In our app we have a base controller that overrides all the View() overloads so that it reads in the name of the MasterPage from the web.config. That way customising the app is as simple as a new MasterPage and from a Controllers point of view there is no code change since our base class handles the MasterPage/web.config stuff.
I couldn't get an automated solution to this, so it came down to a hack:
public virtual void PopulateCssTag(string tags)
{
// tags is a pre-compsed string containing all the tags I need.
this.Wrapper = this.Wrapper.Replace("</head>", tags + "</head>");
}

Server-side Javascript (aspx.cs) Attributes.Add Code to Change a Label's text

I am trying to change a label's text by using server-side JavaScript (onclick) and C# within the page_load event. For example, I would like to write something like the following:
Label1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "Label2.text='new caption'")
Does anyone know the correct code for this? Also, what is this type of code referred to; is it just JavaScript or JavaScript in C# or is there a specific name? Lastly, does a book or online resource exist that lists the choices of control.attributes.add("event", "syntax") code to use with C#?
There is no server-side Javascript (unless you change to a platform other than ASP.NET where you actually use Javascript as server language). What you are doing is adding an attribute to the html tag, and the code will be executed entirely on the client side.
First, let's look at how it's done in HTML without the server side code and server side controls:
<span onclick="document.getElementById('Label2').innerHTML='Thank you';">Click me</span>
<span id="Label2"></span>
To use Label controls instead, setting the onclick attribute from server side code, you would do like this:
Label1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "document.getElementById('Label2').innerHTML='Thank you';");
This will work as long as the controls are not inside a naming container. If they are, the id of the controls are prepended with the name of the container to keep them unique, so you need to use the ClientID property to find out what their final id is:
Label1.Attributes.Add("onclick", "document.getElementById('" + Label2.ClientID + "').innerHTML='Thank you';");
The ClientID always contains the id that you can use to access the element from Javascript, so the last code always works regardless if the control is in a naming container or not.
To find out what attributes you can use, you should look at the HTML documentation, for example the Internet Explorer documentation for the span element. When looking at the documetation for a specific feature, notice the Standards Information, as that will tell you if it works in any browser or just in Internet Explorer.
The code above adds JavaScript to a server control rendered on the client. Take a look at this MSDN article - Using JavaScript Along with ASP.NET for more information.
IIRC, you will need to reference Label2 by its ClientID and will need to write some JavaScript to change the label's text value (I think ASP.NET labels get rendered as <span> tags).

C#: Best way to inject CSS into MSHTML instance?

I'm trying to inject some CSS that accompanies some other HTML into a C# managed WebBrowser control. I am trying to do this via the underlying MSHTML (DomDocument property) control, as this code is serving as a prototype of sorts for a full IE8 BHO.
The problem is, while I can inject HTML (via mydomdocument.body.insertAdjacentHTML) and Javascript (via mydomdocument.parentWindow.execScript), it is flat-out rejecting my CSS code.
If I compare the string containing the HTML I want to insert with the destination page source after injection, the MSHTML's source will literally contain everything except for the <style> element and its underlying source.
The CSS passes W3C validation for CSS 2.1. It doesn't do anything too tricky, with the exception that some background-image properties have the image directly embedded into the CSS (e.g. background-image: url("data:image/png;base64 ...), and commenting out those lines doesn't change the result.
More strangely (and I am not sure if this is relevant), was that I was having no problems with this last week. I came back to it this week and, after switching around some of the code that handles the to-be-injected HTML before actual injection, it no longer worked. Naturally I thought that one of my changes might somehow be the problem, but after commenting all that logic out and feeding it a straight string the HTML is still appearing unformatted.
At the moment I'm injecting into the <body> tag, though I've attempted to inject into <head> and that's met with similar results.
Thanks in advance for your help!
tom
Ended up solving this myself:
mshtml.HTMLDocument test = (mshtml.HTMLDocument)webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument;
//inject CSS
if (test.styleSheets.length < 31) { // createStyleSheet throws "Invalid Argument if >31 stylesheets on page
mshtml.IHTMLStyleSheet css = (mshtml.IHTMLStyleSheet)test.createStyleSheet("", 0);
css.cssText = myDataClass.returnInjectionCSS(); // String containing CSS to inject into the page
// CSS should now affect page
} else {
System.Console.WriteLine("Could not inject CSS due to styleSheets.length > 31");
return;
}
What I didn't realize is that createStyleSheet creates a pointer that is still 'live' in the document's DOM... therefore you don't need to append your created stylesheet back to its parent. I ended up figuring this out by studying dynamic CSS code for Javascript as the implementations are pretty much identical.

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