--- title: "WebBrowser Control Overview" description: Learn how to use the WebBrowser control to seamlessly combine Web controls with Windows Forms controls in a single application. ms.date: "03/30/2017" f1_keywords: - "WebBrowser" helpviewer_keywords: - "WebBrowser control [Windows Forms], about" - "Web pages [Windows Forms], displaying in applications" ms.assetid: 6e3e1cc2-9c48-4136-9659-e99e4e60b7e9 --- # WebBrowser Control Overview The control provides a managed wrapper for the WebBrowser ActiveX control. The managed wrapper lets you display Web pages in your Windows Forms client applications. You can use the control to duplicate Internet Explorer Web browsing functionality in your application or you can disable default Internet Explorer functionality and use the control as a simple HTML document viewer. You can also use the control to add DHTML-based user interface elements to your form and hide the fact that they are hosted in the control. This approach lets you seamlessly combine Web controls with Windows Forms controls in a single application. ## Frequently Used Properties, Methods, and Events The control has several properties, methods, and events that you can use to implement controls found in Internet Explorer. For example, you can use the `Navigate` method to implement an address bar, and the `GoBack`, `GoForward`, `Stop`, and `Refresh` methods to implement navigation buttons on a toolbar. You can handle the `Navigated` event to update the address bar with the value of the `Url` property and the title bar with the value of the `DocumentTitle` property. If you want to generate your own page content within your application, you can set the `DocumentText` property. If you are familiar with the HTML document object model (DOM), you can also manipulate the contents of the current Web page through the `Document` property. With this property, you can store and modify documents in memory instead of navigating among files. The `Document` property also lets you call methods implemented in Web page scripting code from your client application code. To access your client application code from your scripting code, set the `ObjectForScripting` property. The object that you specify can be accessed by your script code as the `window.external` object. |Name|Description| |----------|-----------------| | property|Gets an object that provides managed access to the HTML document object model (DOM) of the current Web page.| | event|Occurs when a Web page finishes loading.| | property|Gets or sets the HTML content of the current Web page.| | property|Gets the title of the current Web page.| | method|Navigates to the previous page in history.| | method|Navigates to the next page in history.| | method|Navigates to the specified URL.| | event|Occurs before navigation begins, enabling the action to be canceled.| | property|Gets or sets an object that Web page scripting code can use to communicate with your application.| | method|Prints the current Web page.| | method|Reloads the current Web page.| | method|Halts the current navigation and stops dynamic page elements such as sounds and animation.| | property|Gets or sets the URL of the current Web page. Setting this property navigates the control to the new URL.| ## See also - - - - - - - - - - - - [How to: Navigate to a URL with the WebBrowser Control](how-to-navigate-to-a-url-with-the-webbrowser-control.md) - [How to: Print with a WebBrowser Control](how-to-print-with-a-webbrowser-control.md) - [How to: Add Web Browser Capabilities to a Windows Forms Application](how-to-add-web-browser-capabilities-to-a-windows-forms-application.md) - [How to: Create an HTML Document Viewer in a Windows Forms Application](how-to-create-an-html-document-viewer-in-a-windows-forms-application.md) - [How to: Implement Two-Way Communication Between DHTML Code and Client Application Code](implement-two-way-com-between-dhtml-and-client.md) - [WebBrowser Security](webbrowser-security.md)