My old WinForm application used HtmlElementCollection to process a page
HtmlElementCollection hec = this.webbrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input");
In WPF WebBrowser, there are several things that are different. For example
this.webbrowser.Document does not have any method called GetElementsByTagName
Therefore my code is unable to get an HtmlElementCollection
You need to add reference to Microsoft.mshtml
and then you need to cast document as mshtml.HTMLDocument
. After you do that you should be able to use getElementsByTagName()
method
var document = webBrowser.Document as mshtml.HTMLDocument; var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input"); foreach (mshtml.IHTMLElement element in inputs) { }
getElementsByTagName()
returns mshtml.IHTMLElementCollection
and each item is of a mshtml.IHTMLElement
type
EDIT
Alternative solution, if you need to use WinForms WebBrowser
you can use that instead of the WPF one. Add reference to WindowsFormsIntegration
and System.Windows.Forms
, create namespace in XAML and use different browser control