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The purpose of this article is to explain how to get the WebBrowser to print (i.e. there is no standard print method)

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By	Philip Leitch
Level	Beginner
User Rating	4.3 (17 globes from 4 users)
Compatibility	VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Category	Internet/ HTML
World	Visual Basic
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I was creating a form to be printed by HTML, then, after creating the form, realised that I didn’t know how to print the HTML. I looked into it further and found some obscure way in MSDN and some message boards to set focus (through Windows API) to my HTML WebBrowser control and send it a Control P key. The problem is that that only brings up a print dialogue. I didn’t even want to show the HTML form, let alone ask the user to select which printer. I searched further and found a workable solution. Here it is:

frmHTML.WebBrowser1.Navigate("C:\temp\Request.htm")

frmHTML.WebBrowser1.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, 0, 0