WebView Class

Control to show a browser control that can display html and execute javascript.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
  EtoWidget
    Eto.FormsBindableWidget
      Eto.FormsControl
        Eto.FormsWebView

Namespace: Eto.Forms
Assembly: Eto (in Eto.dll) Version: 2.5.3-dev

Syntax

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public class WebView : Control

Public Class WebView
	Inherits Control

type WebView =  
    class
        inherit Control
    end

The WebView type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	WebView	Initializes a new instance of the WebView class

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Properties

	Name	Description
	BrowserContextMenuEnabled	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can click to show the context menu.
	CanGoBack	Gets a value indicating whether the browser can go back to the previous page in history.
	CanGoForward	Gets a value indicating whether the browser can go forward to the next page.
	DocumentTitle	Gets the document title of the current page.
	Url	Gets or sets the URL of the currently navigated page.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	ExecuteScript	Executes the specified javascript in the context of the current page, returning its result.
	GetCallback	Gets an instance of an object used to perform callbacks to the widget from handler implementations (Overrides ControlGetCallback.)
	GoBack	Navigates the browser back to the previous page in history, if there is one.
	GoForward	Navigates the browser forward to the next page in history, if there is one.
	LoadHtml(Stream, Uri)	Loads the specified stream as html into the control.
	LoadHtml(String, Uri)	Loads the specified html string.
	OnDocumentLoaded	Raises the DocumentLoaded event.
	OnDocumentLoading	Raises the DocumentLoading event.
	OnDocumentTitleChanged	Raises the DocumentTitleChanged event.
	OnNavigated	Raises the Navigated event.
	OnOpenNewWindow	Raises the OpenNewWindow event.
	Reload	Reloads the current page
	ShowPrintDialog	Shows the print dialog for the current page.
	Stop	Stops loading the current page.

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Events

	Name	Description
	DocumentLoaded	Occurs when the document is fully loaded.
	DocumentLoading	Occurs when a document starts loading.
	DocumentTitleChanged	Occurs when the title of the page has change either through navigation or a script.
	Navigated	Occurs when the browser has loaded a new uri and has begun loading it.
	OpenNewWindow	Occurs when the page prompts to open a link in a new window

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Fields

	Name	Description
	DocumentLoadedEvent	Identifier for handlers when attaching the DocumentLoaded event.
	DocumentLoadingEvent	Identifier for handlers when attaching the DocumentLoading event.
	DocumentTitleChangedEvent	Identifier for handlers when attaching the DocumentTitleChanged event.
	NavigatedEvent	Identifier for handlers when attaching the Navigated event.
	OpenNewWindowEvent	Identifier for handlers when attaching the OpenNewWindow event.

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Remarks

Most platforms have built-in support for a browser control, which by default this will use. There are other browser implementations available, such as Chromium, etc. You can create your own handler for the web view if you want to use a different browser control.

Reference

Eto.Forms Namespace