WebBrowser.Document.GetElementByID() problem
Hi, I'm trying to load an HTML page inside a webbrowser in my WinForms app and would like to set text values of several elements of the page in order to localize it according to language.
The poblem is, I cannot get any elements from the Document...
This is how I load my document, which is stored locally.
Code:
this.webBrowser.Navigate(new Uri(Application.StartupPath + @"\Help\" + TargetLanguage.GetString("Help_FileName")));
And this is the HTML loaded (fragment)
HTML Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=11" >
<title>Help page</title>
<style>
div.main {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
p.regular {
margin-left: 3%;
word-wrap: break-word;
width: 900px;
max-width: 95%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#B6F2C5">
<div>
<div>
<p name="TestID" id="TestID" class="regular">Hello world<p>
...
</div>
</div>
</body>
I've tried any combination of GetElementByID() and GetElementsByTagName() with "TestID", with "p" and "div" and I never get an element.
I've looked it up on multiple forums and none of the suggested solutions work for me.
ElementByID is always null
ElementsByTag is always empty collection
WebBrowser.Document.Body is always null (not sure if this means anything anyway)
Neither getting elements by tag (p, div, etc) nor getting elements by ID/Name works...
How can I get this done?
And once I eventually get the element I'm looking for, will *.InnerText = "something"; work or how do I set its text then?
Thank you for any help!
Re: WebBrowser.Document.GetElementByID() problem
HAve a look into the following:
System.Net.WebClient
HtmlElementCollection
ocument.GetElementsByTagName
You may also want to have a look at my two articles - Yes, I know that they are in VB, but you will still be able to get the whole idea of how this can be achieved :
How to use Visual Studio 2012 to Download Images from Websites
http://www.codeguru.com/columns/vb/h...m-websites.htm
Creating a Web Text Scraper with Visual Basic
http://www.codeguru.com/columns/vb/c...sual-basic.htm
Re: WebBrowser.Document.GetElementByID() problem
Hi Hannes, thanks for the answer. I had already tried all those, that's why I mention that things like ElementByID and ElementsByTag return null and empty collection. I ended up coding an HTMLConstruction class that will take the help page structure and add texts from within my App, and then just set the WebBrowser.DocumentText instead of navigating to an URL. This way I just read whatever text tag I need from the target language resx file and add that to my HTML. After all it's just a help page with static texts... nothing fancy.
Thanks anyway!
