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?
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