How to get the HREF value of the Anchor tag in a web page using the web browser control in vb.net

Question

User-1044947479 posted

Hi Friends,

              i have a webserver control in my application.i load the web browser control on a button click using the below code

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

               AxWebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.rateitall.com/i-322335-.aspx", False)

End sub

once the page is loaded in the browser i want the <a> HREF value in that page.For example if that page has a word with name Attorney then i want to get the url of that word.how to get this.Plz help me.

with regards,

Balaji.

Answer 1

User1176188571 posted
what exactly you want give more details..?

Answer 2

User-1044947479 posted

hi udkadam,

                if the are words like this ATTORNEY,People in a web page with the hyper links then i want the url associated with these hyperlinks.

with regards,

Balaji. 

 

Answer 3

User-709143439 posted

Try this, it will loop through links to show the links and text.  Code is for .NET not vb6

Dim i As Integer = 0
  For Each Link As HtmlElement In AxWebBrowser1.Document.Links
            ListBox1.Items.Add(i & ". " & Link.InnerHtml & ": " & Link.OuterHtml)
            i += 1
           ' Add to find only Attorney info
              'If Link.OuterHtml.Contains("Attorney") Then
             '   Debug.Print(i - 1 & " " & Link.OuterHtml)
             'End Add to find only Attorney info
            'End If
     Next

Answer 4

User-952121411 posted

You could use JavaScript to loop through the <a> anchors collection on a page and then run logic when you find key words within the returned 'href' property.  The loop is below; it just does a JavaScript 'alert', but you could modify the JS to do whatever you need with the keywords:

function LoopThroughAnchorCollection(){

    // get all links on page
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
    var size = anchors.length;

    // loop through anchors and display thier 'HREF' property
    for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        
        alert(anchors[i].href);

       };

}

Here are a couple of links for reference:

http://www.w3schools.com/JS/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_anchor_href

http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/tutorialdetails.php?itemid=215