How to display a HTML String in a ActiveX WebBrowser ?

[GillesB]

How to direct display a HTML String in a ActiveX WebBrowser without use a URL ?

[Bob_Y.]

I am sure that it would depend on the browser, but with Internet Explorer from Microsoft, I don't think you can. (I may be wrong on this.) What you could do would be to save your string to file and read the file as a url in the browser. I know that this is a step you are trying to avoid, but it will work.

Hope that this helps,
Bob Young

[Wiebe@CARYA]

Hi,

Bob, you are wrong, it is possible...

Use the Navigate2 method, and in the URL don't wire a path, but a string,
like this:

about:



The "about:" is the key, after this you can put your html.

Regards,

Wiebe.


"Bob Y." wrote in message
news:506500000005000000B0CF0100-1079395200000@exchange.ni.com...
> I am sure that it would depend on the browser, but with Internet
> Explorer from Microsoft, I don't think you can. (I may be wrong on
> this.) What you could do would be to save your string to file and
> read the file as a url in the browser. I know that this is a step you
> are trying to avoid, but it will work.
>
> Hope that this helps,
> Bob Young

[stevem181]

Wiebe,

This is really slick, but it seems there is a limit (1k or so) to the length of the html string.

Are there any tricks to inputing a bigger string?

Thank you,

steve

[ztoddw]

Anyone know an answer to this yet?  This came up in a google search for me and fits my problem exactly.

[Darin.K]

Are you stuck with ActiveX? 

I suggest you simply use the .NET WebBrowser control and its DocumentText property to display an HTML string.

[ztoddw]

Nev mind- I found I can do this-

navigate2 "about: "

call doEvents

set document.body.innerHTML to my Html code.

I'm using microsoft access vba.  I didn't even know what language y'all were using  🙂

[paul_a_cardinale]

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