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Youssef Messaoudi
Youssef Messaoudi

Reputation: 131

How to get Selected Text from WebBrowser WPF Control and bind it to a string object?

Here is my web browser:

<WebBrowser viewmodel:BrowserBehavior.Html="{Binding SelectedNode.ContentData.FileName, Converter={StaticResource converter}, Mode=OneWay}" />

In fact, text in my WebBrowser Control can be Selected.

I wonder if I can retrieve the Selected portion in a string object?

PS: When right-clicking the Selected portion , I'd noticed that user can copy selected text. So my second question will be "Can we get the copied text?" I mean the copied portion should be saved somewhere in some environment variable, can we get it in c#?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2321

Answers (1)

dkozl
dkozl

Reputation: 33364

You cannot bind selected text from WebBrowser but you can get it manually like so:

var doc = webBrowser.Document as mshtml.HTMLDocument;
if (doc != null)
{
    var currentSelection = doc.selection;
    if (currentSelection != null)
    {
        var selectionRange = currentSelection.createRange();
        if (selectionRange != null)
        {
            var selectionText = selectionRange.Text;
            //do something with selected text
        }
    }
}

where webBroswer is your browser control

<WebBrowser x:Name="webBroswer" ... />

but you'll need to add reference to Microsoft.mshtml and to answer your second question you can get copied text from clipboard with Clipboard class

var copiedText = Clipboard.GetText();

Upvotes: 2

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