How to inject Javascript in WebBrowser control?

Question

I\'ve tried this:

string newScript = textBox1.Text;
HtmlElement head = browserCtrl.Document.GetElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0];
HtmlElement scriptEl = browser         


        

Answer 1

this is a solution using mshtml

IHTMLDocument2 doc = new HTMLDocumentClass();
doc.write(new object[] { File.ReadAllText(filePath) });
doc.close();

IHTMLElement head = (IHTMLElement)((IHTMLElementCollection)doc.all.tags("head")).item(null, 0);
IHTMLScriptElement scriptObject = (IHTMLScriptElement)doc.createElement("script");
scriptObject.type = @"text/javascript";
scriptObject.text = @"function btn1_OnClick(str){
    alert('you clicked' + str);
}";
((HTMLHeadElementClass)head).appendChild((IHTMLDOMNode)scriptObject);

Answer 2

What you want to do is use Page.RegisterStartupScript(key, script) :

See here for more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478975.aspx

What you basically do is build your javascript string, pass it to that method and give it a unique id( in case you try to register it twice on a page.)

EDIT: This is what you call trigger happy. Feel free to down it. :)

Answer 3

I used this :D

HtmlElement script = this.WebNavegador.Document.CreateElement("SCRIPT");
script.SetAttribute("TEXT", "function GetNameFromBrowser() {" + 
"return 'My name is David';" + 
"}");

this.WebNavegador.Document.Body.AppendChild(script);

Then you can execute and get the result with:

string myNameIs = (string)this.WebNavegador.Document.InvokeScript("GetNameFromBrowser");

I hope to be helpful

Answer 4

For some reason Richard's solution didn't work on my end (insertAdjacentText failed with an exception). This however seems to work:

HtmlElement head = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("head")[0];
HtmlElement scriptEl = webBrowser1.Document.CreateElement("script");
IHTMLScriptElement element = (IHTMLScriptElement)scriptEl.DomElement;
element.text = "function sayHello() { alert('hello') }";
head.AppendChild(scriptEl);
webBrowser1.Document.InvokeScript("sayHello");

This answer explains how to get the IHTMLScriptElement interface into your project.

Answer 5

Also, in .NET 4 this is even easier if you use the dynamic keyword:

dynamic document = this.browser.Document;
dynamic head = document.GetElementsByTagName("head")[0];
dynamic scriptEl = document.CreateElement("script");
scriptEl.text = ...;
head.AppendChild(scriptEl);

Answer 6

The managed wrapper for the HTML document doesn't completely implement the functionality you need, so you need to dip into the MSHTML API to accomplish what you want:

1) Add a reference to MSHTML, which will probalby be called "Microsoft HTML Object Library" under COM references.

2) Add 'using mshtml;' to your namespaces.

3) Get a reference to your script element's IHTMLElement:

IHTMLElement iScriptEl = (IHTMLElement)scriptEl.DomElement;

4) Call the insertAdjacentText method, with the first parameter value of "afterBegin". All the possible values are listed here:

iScriptEl.insertAdjacentText("afterBegin", "function sayHello() { alert('hello') }");

5) Now you'll be able to see the code in the scriptEl.InnerText property.

Hth, Richard