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you will need to use the web browser control instead of the rich text control
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you will need to use the web browser control instead of the rich text control

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I'm aware that the WebBrowser control will do this. Unfortunately that's not an option. I need to figure out how to make a RichTextBox (or similar) control do this.
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I'm aware that the WebBrowser control will do this. Unfortunately that's not an option. I need to figure out how to make a RichTextBox (or similar) control do this.

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Sorry, that's never an acceptable answer. It's always possible, even if I have to subclass the RichTextBox control myself. It seems that's what I'll be doing unless someone else can come up with an alternative.
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Sorry, that's never an acceptable answer. It's always possible, even if I have to subclass the RichTextBox control myself. It seems that's what I'll be doing unless someone else can come up with an alternative.

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In a Windows Forms application, I have a RichTextBox control with the DetectUrls property set to true.<br />
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Using the following text:<br />

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Hello, and welcome to &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.colgate.com" rel="ugc">http://www.colgate.com</a>&quot;&gt;Colgate toothpaste&lt;/a&gt;. Or if you prefer, just go to <a href="http://www.crest.com" rel="ugc">http://www.crest.com</a>.
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I get this result:<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/07_w30/1107980/rtb.png" target="_blank" title="rtb (2 KB)"><img alt="rtb" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 631px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/07_w30/1107980/rtb.png" /></a>What I really need is for it to render the string as a web browser would so it would look like this:<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/07_w30/1107981/web.png" target="_blank" title="web (7 KB)"><img alt="web" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 598px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/07_w30/1107981/web.png" /></a><br />
I'd even be OK if it rendered both the &lt;a&gt; tag and the explicit URL both as links but that's not necessary. What I really need is a way to render the &lt;a&gt; tag as a link. Any idea how I can accomplish this?
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In a Windows Forms application, I have a RichTextBox control with the DetectUrls property set to true.

Using the following text:
Hello, and welcome to <a href="http://www.colgate.com">Colgate toothpaste</a>. Or if you prefer, just go to http://www.crest.com.
I get this result:

What I really need is for it to render the string as a web browser would so it would look like this:


I'd even be OK if it rendered both the <a> tag and the explicit URL both as links but that's not necessary. What I really need is a way to render the <a> tag as a link. Any idea how I can accomplish this?

Windows Forms show &lt;a&gt; tags as links

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Windows Forms show &lt;a&gt; tags as links

Windows Forms show <a> tags as links