asp.netwpfwebbrowser-controlbuttonclickevent-capturing

How to capture button click event of webpage (opened inside WebBrowser Control) in WPF form?


Consider a scenario where I have a WebBrowser Control in WPF application. A web page is loaded inside WebBrowser Control. The web page contains a button. The web page is of ASP.NET application.

I want to capture the button click event of the webpage into WPF Form (which hosts WebBrowser Control). Is there any way to achieve this functionality?


Solution

  • Here is code that should do exactly what you want with comments to explain what is going on:

    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
    
        /// <summary>
        /// This is a helper class.  It appears that we can't mark the Window as ComVisible
        /// so instead, we'll use this seperate class to be the C# code that gets called.
        /// </summary>
        [ComVisible(true)]
        public class ComVisibleObjectForScripting
        {
            public MainWindow Parent;
    
            public void ButtonClicked()
            {
                //Do whatever you need to do.  For now, we'll just show a message box
                Parent.MessageBox.Show("Button was clicked in web page");
            }
        }
    
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            //Pass an instance of our helper class as the target object for scripting
            webBrowser1.ObjectForScripting = new ComVisibleObjectForScripting{ Parent = this };
        }
    
        private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            //Navigate to your page somehow
            webBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.somewhere.com/");
        }
    
        private void webBrowser1_LoadCompleted(object sender, NavigationEventArgs e)
        {
            //Once the document is loaded, we need to inject some custom JavaScript.
    
            //Here is the JavaScript
            var javascript = @"
    //This is the JavaScript method that will forward the click to the WPF app
    function htmlButtonClicked()
    {
        //Do any other procession...here we just always call to the WPF app
        window.external.ButtonClicked();
    }
    
    //Find the button that you want to watch for clicks 
    var searchButton = document.getElementById('theButton');
    
    //Attach an onclick handler that executes our function
    searchButton.attachEvent('onclick',htmlButtonClicked);
    ";
    
            //Grab the current document and cast it to a type we can use
            //NOTE: This interface is defined in the MSHTML COM Component
            //       You need to add a Reference to it in the Add References window
            var doc = (IHTMLDocument2)webBrowser1.Document;
            
            //Once we have the document, execute our JavaScript in it
            doc.parentWindow.execScript(javascript);
        }
    }
    

    Some of this was taken from http://beensoft.blogspot.com/2010/03/two-way-interaction-with-javascript-in.html