Using the MSHTML Control

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About the Author

About the Technical Reviewers

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Ch. 1. Essential JavaScript

Ch. 2. The JavaScript Language: Data, Operators, and Branching

Ch. 3. The JavaScript Language: Loops, Functions, and Errors

Ch. 4. Handling the Browser Environment

Ch. 5. Using Core HTML Properties

Ch. 6. Using Core HTML Methods and Events

Ch. 7. Using window and frame Properties

Ch. 8. Using window and frame Methods and Events

Ch. 9. Using the document and body Objects

Ch. 10. Using the navigator, location, and history Objects

Ch. 11. Working with HTML Text Elements

Ch. 12. Working with Forms, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons

Ch. 13. Working with Text and Select Controls

Ch. 14. Working with Links, Lists, and Tables

Ch. 15. Working with the Mouse, Keyboard, and Images

Ch. 16. Dynamic HTML: Changing Web Pages On-the-Fly

Ch. 17. Dynamic HTML: Drag and Drop, Data Binding, and Behaviors

Dragging and Dropping Visual Elements

Dragging and Dropping Data

Dragging and Dropping Using Layers

Data Binding

Using the MSHTML Control

Using the Tabular Data Control

Using the XML DSO

Internet Explorer Behaviors

Ch. 18. The Date, Time, and String Objects

Ch. 19. The Math, Number, Boolean, and Array Objects

Ch. 20. The RegExp Object: Working with Regular Expressions

Ch. 21. Cascading Style Sheets and CGI Programming

Ch. 22. XML and XSLT

Ch. 23. Cookies and Creating Your Own Objects

Ch. 24. .NET and Security

Index

Using the MSHTML Control

Using the MSHTML control, you can read data in HTML format into a recordset. Here’s an example, which I’ll call data.html. This document holds data in HTML format; the data we’re using here represents a set of employees. I’ve divided the data into records, one for each employee. Each record has several fields, such as Name to hold the employee’s name, ID to hold their ID number, and so on. You can create a record just by storing multiple fields, and you create a field by giving a <SPAN> element a name and then storing the data as that <SPAN> element’s text. Here’s what the data document looks like, with five employee records :

(data.html on the web site)

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<HTML> 
    <HEAD> 
        <TITLE> 
            A Data Document 
        </TITLE> 
    </HEAD> 

    <BODY> 
        <H1> 
            This page holds data. 
        </H1> 
        Name: <SPAN ID="NAME">Frank</SPAN><BR> 
        ID: <SPAN ID="ID">2314</SPAN><BR> 
        Hire Date: <SPAN ID="HIRE_DATE"> 
            9-2-2003</SPAN><BR> 
        Department: <SPAN ID="DEPARTMENT"> 
            Shipping</SPAN><BR> 
        Title: <SPAN ID="TITLE">Packer</SPAN><BR> 

        Name: <SPAN ID="NAME">Martin</SPAN><BR> 
        ID: <SPAN ID="ID">2315</SPAN><BR> 
        Hire Date: <SPAN ID="HIRE_DATE"> 
            9-2-2003</SPAN><BR> 
        Department: <SPAN ID="DEPARTMENT"> 
            Packing</SPAN><BR> 
        Title: <SPAN ID="TITLE">Programmer</SPAN><BR> 

        Name: <SPAN ID="NAME">Tom</SPAN><BR> 
        ID: <SPAN ID="ID">2316</SPAN><BR> 
        Hire Date: <SPAN ID="HIRE_DATE"> 
            9-2-2003</SPAN><BR> 
        Department: <SPAN ID="DEPARTMENT"> 
            Shipping</SPAN><BR> 
        Title: <SPAN ID="TITLE">Packer</SPAN><BR> 

        Name: <SPAN ID="NAME">Henry</SPAN><BR>  
        ID: <SPAN ID="ID">2317</SPAN><BR> 
        Hire Date: <SPAN ID="HIRE_DATE"> 
            9-2-2003</SPAN><BR> 
        Department: <SPAN ID="DEPARTMENT"> 
            Shipping</SPAN><BR> 
        Title: <SPAN ID="TITLE">Packer</SPAN><BR> 

        Name: <SPAN ID="NAME">Paula</SPAN><BR> 
        ID: <SPAN ID="ID">2318</SPAN><BR> 
        Hire Date: <SPAN ID="HIRE_DATE"> 
            9-2-2003</SPAN><BR> 
        Department: <SPAN ID="DEPARTMENT"> 
            Shipping</SPAN><BR> 
        Title: <SPAN ID="TITLE">Packer</SPAN><BR> 
    </BODY> 
</HTML>

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Using the MSHTML Control

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