Re: Accessing an HTML document's objects

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From: Björn Holmgren (bjohol_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:12:28 +0200

"Alan Lambert" <AlanLambert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5EEDEBC5-3EF3-471F-AA49-2126FE923135@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to access the contents of an HTML document using the object
model. I know this can be done by using the WebBrowser control but I don't
want to display the page, just navigate through it. Setting the WebBrowser
control's visible property to false seems to prevent access to the DOM.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative method?

How about creating an instance of the InternetExplorer.Application class?

Example:

    Const READYSTATE_COMPLETE = 4
    Dim IE As Object
    Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    IE.Navigate2 "http://specify.url.here"
    Do Until IE.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE: DoEvents: Loop
    ' You can now access the DOM through the IE.Document property
    IE.Quit
    Set IE = Nothing 

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Björn Holmgren
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