Question

I’m using Visual Studio 2010 and I’m putting web browser into my program. So far, I am able to get the page to navigate to the address I type into my TextBox1. However, if i press the back button or forward button, the TextBox1 does not change to the correct website address. How do I write the code so that TextBox1 always shows the correct website name. Please advice, thanks.

Answer 1

I assume you’re using the WebBrowser control and displaying the current URL in a TextBox control.

In that case, you need to handle the Navigated event of your WebBrowser control, and inside of that event handler method, update the Text property of your TextBox control.

The Navigated event is raised when the WebBrowser control has navigated to a new document and has begun loading it. The documentation tells you all of the properties/methods that can trigger the WebBrowser control to begin navigating to a new page.

The documentation even contains a sample for exactly what you’re doing:

private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
{
    myTextBox.Text = e.Url.ToString();
}