How to use innertext in geckofx using visual basic

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Hello, newbie here.

So, I want to make a program, which will open up a website with GeckoWebBrowser. There in that website is a text box, and I want to insert a text into that text box.

For instance, on a classic web browser I would do this:
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("word").InnerText = "gehen"

Now, I would like to do the same thing in GeckoWebBrowser, but the problem is that it doesn't seem to have the innerText control.

Here is the part of the html code:

<pre><pre><input id="word" class="input_style ui-autocomplete-input" type="text" maxlength="50">

And the link to the website for the better view:
https://www.dict.com/German-English

What I have tried:

Here's what I've tried...

1st try:

GeckoWebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("word").TextContent = "gehen"

2nd try:

GeckoWebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("word").SetAttribute("text", "gehen")

3rd try:
What I got from some forum:

Dim myElement As Gecko.GeckoHtmlElement = Nothing
Dim myDoc As Gecko.GeckoDocument = GeckoWebBrowser1.Window.Document
myElement = myDoc.GetHtmlElementById("word")

If myElement IsNot Nothing Then
    myElement.InnerHtml = "gehen"
End If

And that's about it. I've been trying this for a whole week, but I just don't seem to find an answer to my question. I've searched on different forums, I might as well have searched the whole web, but no luck.

I really hope you can help, and thank you very, very much for it.
May the rest of your day be as amazing as the taste of a chocolate :)

Posted 11-Jun-17 21:14pm

Member 13254081

Updated 17-Jan-18 0:33am

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Richard MacCutchan 12-Jun-17 4:00am

Duplicate question removed.

Richard Deeming 12-Jun-17 14:03pm

Is there a Value property?

If not, try: SetAttribute("value", "gehen")

Member 13254081 13-Jun-17 1:41am

Nope, tried just now and it didn't work, but thanks anyway... Any other suggestions?

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Jaroslav Mitrovic · Answer 1 · 2018-01-17T00:32:00

Hi, Member 13254081.

I used something like this.

Dim inputter As GeckoTextAreaElement = DirectCast(GeckoWeb.Document.GetElementById("wpTextbox1"), GeckoTextAreaElement)

then this...

inputter.ScrollIntoView(True)
                inputter.Focus()
                inputter.SelectionDirection = "forward"
                inputter.SelectionStart = inputter.Value.IndexOf("<!-- ProtoItem-Name:", StringComparison.Ordinal)
                inputter.SelectionEnd = inputter.Value.IndexOf("}}", StringComparison.Ordinal)
                inputter.Select()
                inputter.Focus()
                inputter.Value = etwasvordemquelltext & tempgegenstand.SeitenQuellText & vbNewLine & etwasnachdemquelltext

this is used to cahnge the selection on a Combobox it think....

But the most Importent is the "inputter.Value" of the

GeckoTextAreaElement

c.u. Zui from Hamburg