The purpose of this article is to explain how to get the WebBrowser to print (i.e. there is no standard print method)
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| By | Philip Leitch |
| Level | Beginner |
| User Rating | 4.3 (17 globes from 4 users) |
| Compatibility | VB 5.0, VB 6.0 |
| Category | Internet/ HTML |
| World | Visual Basic |
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I was creating a form to be printed by HTML, then, after creating the form, realised that I didn’t know how to print the HTML. I looked into it further and found some obscure way in MSDN and some message boards to set focus (through Windows API) to my HTML WebBrowser control and send it a Control P key. The problem is that that only brings up a print dialogue. I didn’t even want to show the HTML form, let alone ask the user to select which printer. I searched further and found a workable solution. Here it is:
frmHTML.WebBrowser1.Navigate("C:\temp\Request.htm")
frmHTML.WebBrowser1.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, 0, 0