Hey, I'm a novice here and I've been looking though the MSDN documentation on the WebBrowser control and noticed there was no method for finding text in a document. This is a pretty serious omission. Is there a way of getting this functionality?

this.theWebBrowserControl.DocumentText; //gets or sets the HTML Text to be displayed

so what you would have to do is some Regex- Regular Expressions to find the word you are after. Once you find it, you will then have to highlight it in some way.

Take a look at this, check to see if it has the find feature:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379558(vs.80).aspx

perhaps there is some command you can invoke to do a search using the InvokeMember method? I'm not sure, just thinking aloud

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.htmlelement.invokemember.aspx

As ahmed suggest, finding it is the easy part...to highlight the find will take manipulating the html :

Dim wb As New WebBrowser

wb.Navigate("http://www.google.com")

Dim TheText As String = wb.DocumentText

Dim SearchString As String = "Google"

If TheText.Contains(SearchString) Then

'do somthing

End If

Have you tried just using the internal FindDialog-box of the WebBrowser? In VS2003 you can execute the Find Dialog-box of IE when you send the command using WBExec().

you can make your own find method by searching through text in the documentText property perhaps. Remember, the webbrowser control is just a core functionality of IE, no extra fancy bits like favorites/IE options/Search box etc...

I don't see that property in the link I provided. There is a "Document" property but no documentText. I'm okay with making my own method, but I don't see how I'd achieve it since I need a way to select a word in the document.

this.theWebBrowserControl.DocumentText; //gets or sets the HTML Text to be displayed

so what you would have to do is some Regex- Regular Expressions to find the word you are after. Once you find it, you will then have to highlight it in some way.

Take a look at this, check to see if it has the find feature:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379558(vs.80).aspx

perhaps there is some command you can invoke to do a search using the InvokeMember method? I'm not sure, just thinking aloud

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.htmlelement.invokemember.aspx

As ahmed suggest, finding it is the easy part...to highlight the find will take manipulating the html :

Dim wb As New WebBrowser

wb.Navigate("http://www.google.com")

Dim TheText As String = wb.DocumentText

Dim SearchString As String = "Google"

If TheText.Contains(SearchString) Then

'do somthing

End If

I've decided that the best way to do it is by executing some javascript code that searches for the term and highlights the result(s). All I need to know is: Is there an easy way to execute javascript code on the currently displaying page?

Anyone know of a method that does this? Apple's WebKit has a method called stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString that essentially does this, so I'm hoping MSHTML has an equivalent...

Have you tried just using the internal FindDialog-box of the WebBrowser? In VS2003 you can execute the Find Dialog-box of IE when you send the command using WBExec().