How do I fill a textbox in webkitbrowser?

Question

I have this code for a textbox on a website:

<textarea class="chat_input">

    Enter text for chat here

</textarea>

What I am trying to do, is to put text into it. On a different question, a person showed how to click a link that was a class with this code:

foreach (Node el in webKitBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a"))
{
    if (((Element) el).GetAttribute("id") == "lnkId")
    {
        string urlString = ((Element) el).Attributes["href"].NodeValue;
        webKitBrowser1.Navigate(urlString);
    }
}

I tried adapting it for this code here:

message = txtMessage.Text;
foreach(Node txt in wb.Document.GetElementsByTagName("textarea"))
{
    if(((Element)txt).GetAttribute("Class") == "chat_input")
    {
        ((Element)txt).SetAttribute("Value", message);
    }
}

When I debugged it, it went though the code 5 times, which is how many textarea's there was. Does anyone know why it does not fill the textbox?

Already answered here; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580052/set-value-of-a-textarea-inside-a-webbrowser-control-c-net — , Mar 19 '14 at 14:58

Wim · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-19T15:12:53.303

1

You need to not use SetAttribute, but set the TextContent property instead.

So:

if(((Element)txt).GetAttribute("Class") == "chat_input")
{
        ((Element)txt).TextContent = message;
}

edited Mar 19 '14 at 15:12

answered Mar 19 '14 at 14:55

Wim

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`'WebKit.DOM.Element' does not contain a definition for 'InnerText' and no extension method 'InnerText' accepting a first argument of type 'WebKit.DOM.Element' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) ` – Dozer789 Mar 19 '14 at 15:07
Apologies, try TextContent. – Wim Mar 19 '14 at 15:13

How do I fill a textbox in webkitbrowser?

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