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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:17:31+00:00

Anyone know of a good free winforms html editor for .NET. Ideally I would

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Anyone know of a good free winforms html editor for .NET. Ideally I would like html and preview modes along with the possibility of exporting to a pdf, word doc or similar.

Although the export I could probably create myself from the html output.

Another nice feature would be a paste from word that removes all the extra tags you usually end up with but again it’s a nice to have not a required.

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  1. You can use the WebBrowser control in design mode with a second WebBrowser control set in view mode.

    In order to put the WebBrowser control in design mode, you can use the following code.

    This code is a super stripped down version of a WYSIWYG editor for one of our software products.

    Simply create a new Form, drop a WebBrowser control on it, and put this in the Form.Load:

    Me.WebBrowser1.Navigate('') Application.DoEvents() Me.WebBrowser1.Document.OpenNew(False).Write('<html><body><div id=''editable''>Edit this text</div></body></html>')  'turns off document body editing For Each el As HtmlElement In Me.WebBrowser1.Document.All     el.SetAttribute('unselectable', 'on')     el.SetAttribute('contenteditable', 'false') Next  'turns on editable div editing With Me.WebBrowser1.Document.Body.All('editable')     .SetAttribute('width', Me.Width & 'px')     .SetAttribute('height', '100%')     .SetAttribute('contenteditable', 'true') End With  'turns on edit mode Me.WebBrowser1.ActiveXInstance.Document.DesignMode = 'On' 'stops right click->Browse View Me.WebBrowser1.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False
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