How to find data in browser form displayed inside C# application

Question

The Webform in C# lets me construct my own browser. I am able to navigate to the site I want to go to. I would like to use some of the data displayed in the browser form in my application. I cannot find any documentation on how to access the undelying HTML. I would like to be able to read the displayed HTML and also add data to the data entry fields before submitting the next URL.

dgk · Answer

Thanks you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

I think my Introduction to Web Site Scraping will help. Note that it explains about HtmlDocument and related classes in the Forms namespace and about HTMLDocument in the mshtml namespace. I do not know what the Webform control is but I assume it also has classes like HtmlDocument. You should use the classes that the Webform control offers as much as possible but you might need to use the classes in the mshtml namespace for some things. Since I am not familiar with the Webform control I cannot be more specific about it.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

If you application is using WPF WebBrowser control you can use WebBrowser.Document property that represents HTML in a Document object.