HtmlElement.Parent Property
Definition
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Gets the current element's parent element.
public:
property System::Windows::Forms::HtmlElement ^ Parent { System::Windows::Forms::HtmlElement ^ get(); };
public System.Windows.Forms.HtmlElement Parent { get; }
public System.Windows.Forms.HtmlElement? Parent { get; }
member this.Parent : System.Windows.Forms.HtmlElement
Public ReadOnly Property Parent As HtmlElement
Property Value
The element above the current element in the HTML document's hierarchy.
Examples
The following code example finds all of the IMG
tags in a document, and uses the Parent property to test whether the IMG
is hyperlinked to another page; if it is, the code assigns the URL to the ALT
attribute of the IMG
tag, so that users can mouse over the image to see where it will take them.
private void AddUrlToTooltip()
{
if (webBrowser1.Document != null)
{
foreach (HtmlElement elem in webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("IMG"))
{
if (elem.Parent.TagName.Equals("A"))
{
String altStr = elem.GetAttribute("ALT");
if (!(altStr == null) && (altStr.Length != 0))
{
elem.SetAttribute("ALT", altStr + " - points to " + elem.Parent.GetAttribute("HREF"));
}
else
{
elem.SetAttribute("ALT", "Points to " + elem.Parent.GetAttribute("HREF"));
}
}
}
}
}
Private Sub AddUrlToTooltip()
If (WebBrowser1.Document IsNot Nothing) Then
With WebBrowser1.Document
For Each Elem As HtmlElement In .GetElementsByTagName("IMG")
If (Elem.Parent.TagName.Equals("A")) Then
Dim AltStr As String = Elem.GetAttribute("ALT")
If (Not (AltStr Is Nothing) And (AltStr.Length <> 0)) Then
Elem.SetAttribute("ALT", AltStr & " - points to " & Elem.Parent.GetAttribute("HREF"))
Else
Elem.SetAttribute("ALT", "Points to " & Elem.Parent.GetAttribute("HREF"))
End If
End If
Next
End With
End If
End Sub
Remarks
The Parent property enables discovery of an element's context. It is most useful inside of event handlers such as Click, which can fire for any element anywhere in the document's object hierarchy.
The Parent property of the HTML element (the top of an HTML document) points back to itself. If you call Parent inside a loop, verify that the loop's break condition compares the type of the current element and the type of the Parent
property, or else your code may execute an infinite loop.