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Anyone know of a good free winforms html editor for .NET. Ideally I would like html and preview modes along with the possibility of exporting to a pdf, word doc or similar.
Although the export I could probably create myself from the html output.
Another nice feature would be a paste from word that removes all the extra tags you usually end up with but again it's a nice to have not a required.
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You can use the WebBrowser control in design mode with a second WebBrowser control set in view mode.
In order to put the WebBrowser control in design mode, you can use the following code.
This code is a super stripped down version of a WYSIWYG editor for one of our software products.
Simply create a new Form, drop a WebBrowser control on it, and put this in the Form.Load:
Me.WebBrowser1.Navigate("") Application.DoEvents() Me.WebBrowser1.Document.OpenNew(False).Write("<html><body><div id=""editable"">Edit this text</div></body></html>") 'turns off document body editing For Each el As HtmlElement In Me.WebBrowser1.Document.All el.SetAttribute("unselectable", "on") el.SetAttribute("contenteditable", "false") Next 'turns on editable div editing With Me.WebBrowser1.Document.Body.All("editable") .SetAttribute("width", Me.Width & "px") .SetAttribute("height", "100%") .SetAttribute("contenteditable", "true") End With 'turns on edit mode Me.WebBrowser1.ActiveXInstance.Document.DesignMode = "On" 'stops right click->Browse View Me.WebBrowser1.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = False 
//CODE in C# webBrowser1.Navigate("about:blank"); Application.DoEvents(); webBrowser1.Document.OpenNew(false).Write("<html><body><div id=\"editable\">Edit this text</div></body></html>"); foreach (HtmlElement el in webBrowser1.Document.All) { el.SetAttribute("unselectable", "on"); el.SetAttribute("contenteditable", "false"); } webBrowser1.Document.Body.SetAttribute("width", this.Width.ToString() + "px"); webBrowser1.Document.Body.SetAttribute("height", "100%"); webBrowser1.Document.Body.SetAttribute("contenteditable", "true"); webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument.GetType().GetProperty("designMode").SetValue(webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument, "On", null); webBrowser1.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = false; If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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