Why my app shows only a few lines of HTML-code of a webpage, and IE shows it all.

Hi there,

I have searched on the internet for examples to get the whole HTML-code of a certain webpage. Alle these examples just get me a few lines. The strangest thing is when I take f.e: Internet Explorer, right-click on it and choose Display Source in the context-menu I get a new windows with all the HTML-code of that page. When i do the same with Mozilla Firefox I get also a few lines. Does someone know why my application and Firefox shows only a few lines of code and IE shows it all. Who knows why, and how to solve this problem in my application.

Greetings, Peter Kiers
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carloselfaiteCommented:
can you provide the webpage url?
Peter KiersOperatorAuthor Commented:
Unfortunally not. The url is an url i have logged into. Peter
Dave BaldwinFixer of ProblemsCommented:
It is difficult to help you when you can't give the info to check the problem.  However... it sounds like there may be an error on that page.
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Peter KiersOperatorAuthor Commented:
I have a webbrowser on my form that displays a page. When I right-click on the webbrowser and select display source in the context-menu i get the full html of that page. I have also create a button with the following code:

        private void bbGetHtml_ItemClick(object sender, DevExpress.XtraBars.ItemClickEventArgs e)
        {
            String source = ("source.txt");
            StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText(source);
            writer.Write(webBrowser1.DocumentText);
            writer.Close();
            Process.Start("notepad.exe", source);
        }

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I get only a few lines.

How can I sove this?

Greetings, Peter Kiers
Peter KiersOperatorAuthor Commented:
And I like to mention that the website uses a frameset!

Maybe that is the problem. But how to solve this?



Peter
Peter KiersOperatorAuthor Commented:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH GOT IT:

The reason why I only get a few lines of a site. Is because the site uses a frameset:

And this does the trick:

string html = string.Empty;

// webBrowser1.Document.Window.Frames gets a collection of iframes contained in the current document...
// HTMLWindow is the iterator for the Collection...
foreach (HtmlWindow frame in webBrowser1.Document.Window.Frames)
{
html += frame.Document.Body.OuterHtml;
}

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Greetings, Peter Kiers

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Peter KiersOperatorAuthor Commented:
Found my own solution
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