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Open Default browser and target an element

Open Default browser and target an element

Jay Stewart

9yAsked Jun 9, 2017, 12:35 PM872Windows Forms

Hi all I have done some google work and not come up with a great deal apart from using the browser within a From which I dont want to do.

Has anybody some sample code or a good resource that is detailed enough to get me on my way plesae

So for example

and target the search element with a string and click search.

Using the default browser

Thank you

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Abhilash J A9y ago
you want to actually automate interaction with a web page. I have never done that before but the following tool claims to be able to do the task you are referring to: seleniumhq.org
Jay Stewart9y ago
Hi yes your understanding is correct and the method you have posted although I can use that its not what I really want. Using google was a bad choice for me maybe as that just search's the entire web for the string.

Lets take this site

https://www.education.gov.au

and then I want to target the search box with my string

Thanks
Abhilash J A9y ago
Doing something like this would work:
string mySearchQuery = "this is a search example";
Process.Start("https://www.google.com/search?q=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(mySearchQuery));
If I'm understanding you correctly, this would use the default browser set in windows, then the query is just passed in as a GET request (that's the ?q variable).