WebBroser1.SelectedText

The following will retrieve the selected text from a WebBrowser control named "wb":

'Grab the unmanaged DomDocument behind the WebBrowser that presents the info we need Dim domDoc As Object = wb.Document.DomDocument 'Get the IHTMLDocument2 interface from the unmanaged DomDocument object Dim idoc2 As mshtml.IHTMLDocument2 = domDoc 'Get the Selection object Dim selection As mshtml.IHTMLSelectionObject = idoc2.selection 'Grab its text Dim textHTMLSelection As mshtml.IHTMLTxtRange = CType(selection.createRange(), mshtml.IHTMLTxtRange) 'The text property contains the text 'The HtmlText property contains the HTML MessageBox.Show(textHTMLSelection.text)

For your other customizations, you will have to work a little harder. The following may be helpful:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/overview/Overview.asp, specifically, the section titled Download Control.

durstin at 2007-9-8 >