Question

I think the title covers it all. I use the control to display some basic HTML with some markups and there are maybe also links in there. What I want to do, is to force clicking on any link to get this link opened in a new IE window instead of navigating to that page in the control itself.

Any idea?

Answer 1

You can handle the Navigating event, set the Cancel property of WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs to true, and use Process.Start to open the URL in IE.

Something like this:

private void webBrowser1_Navigating(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs e) {     // prevents WebBrowser to navigate     if (e.Url.Host.Length > 0)    // Otherwise the default about:blank when you init the control doesn't work     {         e.Cancel = true;          // Open the URL in an IE window          System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();         process.StartInfo.FileName = e.Url.ToString();         process.Start();     } }