Re: rendered HTML

It seems the original poster wants to know how to do this
_programmatically_ within ASP.NET.  It looks like you could use the
Windows Forms WebBrowser Control -- in theory you could get an instance
of this without displaying it, feed it the URL, and then grab the
rendered DocumentText.  No idea if you could really do this server-side
in ASP.NET, but worth a try.

See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w290k23d.aspx

Jacob Mattison
Web Developer
Johnson & Wales University
[email protected]
(401) 598-1572

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for 
> the Web [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Fernando Tubio
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:34 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] rendered HTML
> 
> 
> I'm sure there must be better ways to do this, but in Firefox 
> you can select the portion of the page, or Ctrl + A for the 
> complete page, then in the context menu click on 'View 
> Selection Source...'
> 
> Another alternative could be Nikhil Kothari's Web Development 
> Helper [1]. If you select the DOM Inspector, followed by the 
> Markup tab, it will show you the current content of the page, 
> both as a treeview and HTML.
> 
> 
> Fernando Tubio
> 
> 
> [1] http://projects.nikhilk.net/Projects/WebDevHelper.aspx
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dave wanta" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] rendered HTML
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> Thanks for the reply, but actually that doesn't do what I was 
> talking about.
> 
> All this does is get the contents of the from the webserver. 
> However, what I want is the rendered contents (which may or 
> may not live on a webserver). It could just be a string of 
> HTML stored in a database.
> 
> For example, if there was some javascript interspersed in 
> some HTML in there that was:
> 
> Hello <script>document.write( getName() );</script>,<BR> 
> <script> var line = 'this is a line of text'; document.write( 
> '<b>' + line + '</b>'); </script>
> 
> 
> What I want to actually get is:
> Hello jdoe,<BR>
> "<b>this is a line of text</b>"
> 
> Hence my question about getting the *rendered* html.
> 
> Cheers!
> Dave
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Kucera" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] rendered HTML
> 
> 
> Here's a little function that I've used for a while that does 
> just that.
> 
> public static string GetHtmlPage(string location)
> {
>  string retVal;
>  WebResponse objResponse;
>  WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(location);
>  objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();
>  using (StreamReader sr = new
> StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
>  {
>         retVal = sr.ReadToEnd();
>  }
>  return retVal;
> }
> 
> Good Luck
> MK
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for 
> the Web [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> dave wanta
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] rendered HTML
> 
> Hi All,
> Since many web pages contain javascript to layout the page, 
> does anyone know how to get at the rendered HTML of a webpage 
> filled with javascript? I'm guessing you would some how need 
> to create an instance of IE or Firefox, and tap into 
> something (I just don't know what that 'something' is). I 
> know there used to be an IE tool (back in the v4.x days) 
> where you could right-click in the browser window and select 
> "view rendered html".  I was wondering if there was someway 
> to do this in .NET.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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