Display HTML in Silverlight using WebBrowser

Silverlight 4 introduces the WebBrowser control using which you can now display HTML based content in Silverlight.

Note: WebBrowser control only functions in Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications

Let us see an example. Declare XAML with the following layout

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        <RowDefinition />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
       
    <StackPanel Height="30" Margin="5" Orientation="Horizontal"
        VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Row="0">
        <TextBox x:Name="tbUrl" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
        Width="300" Margin="5" Text="http://www.devcurry.com" />
        <Button  x:Name="btnNav" Content="Click" Margin="5"
        Width="40" Click="btnNav_Click" />
    </StackPanel>
    <WebBrowser x:Name="wb"  Grid.Row="1" />       
</Grid>

The layout will be similar to the following:

Now code the button event handler

That’s it. Run the application and you can now view HTML content inside the Silverlight plugin