Select dynamic webbrowser from tabcontrol

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Hello i have been working on my own custom web browser. If i insert a web browser in my tab control and name it i can easily just go webbrowser1.Navigate() in my button click to use the webbrowser methods.

I made a method CreateTab and it automatically adds a web browser to my tab along with a default web page.
My problem is selecting this webbrowser in other button clicks so i can call Home, Back, forward, etc.

Here is me method for creating a tab.

C#

private void CreateTabItem()
{   //create a new tab
    TabItem item = new TabItem();
    item.Header = "Fitness" + i ;
    WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser();
    //browser.Name = "Website";

    browser.Navigate("http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/");
    item.Content = browser;
    tabControl.Items.Add(item);
    i++;
}

private void btnBack_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    //browser.GoBack();
    //if (webBrowser1.CanGoBack)
       // webBrowser1.GoBack();
}

Posted 3-Sep-14 16:33pm

TheBigBearNow

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Sep-14 22:57pm

How it can possibly be related to ASP.NET or WebForms tagged?
Isn't it System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser or System.Windows.Controls.WebBrowser?
—SA

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George Jonsson · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-03T19:16:00

You can try this approach.
Change your code to something like this:

C#

private void CreateTabItem()
{   //create a new tab
    TabItem item = new TabItem();
    item.Header = "Fitness" + i ;
    WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser();
    //browser.Name = "Website";
    item.Tag = browser; 
    
    browser.Navigate("http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/");
    item.Content = browser;
    tabControl.Items.Add(item);
    i++;
}

private void btnBack_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    TabItem item = (tabControl.SelectedItem as TabItem);
    if (item != null)
    {
        WebBrowser browser = (item.Tag as WebBrowser);
        if (browser != null)
        {
            if (browser.CanGoBack)
                browser.GoBack();
        }
    }
}

You can also consider to use tabControl.Items.Count instead of i for indexing.