MSHTML Classes: CWindow

Arguably the starting point for scripting Internet Explorer is the window object. The internal representation in MSHTML is ultimately the CWindow class.

Identifiers

Interfaces

The window object implements the following interfaces:

• IConnectionPointContainer
• IDispatchEx
• IHTMLPrivateWindow3 and its base IHTMLPrivateWindow2
• IHTMLPrivateWindow4 and its base IHTMLPrivateWindow
• IHTMLWindow2 and its bases IHTMLFramesCollection2, IDispatch and IUnknown
• IHTMLWindow3
• IHTMLWindow4
• IHTMLWindow5
• IPersistHistory and its base IPersist
• IProvideMultipleClassInfo and its bases IProvideClassInfo2 and IProvideClassInfo
• IServiceProvider
• ITargetNotify2 and its base ITargetNotify
• ITravelLogClient

Note the “private” interfaces, which Microsoft does not document.

Scripting

Of course, only some of those interfaces are intended for scripting. The table below lists the interface members that the CWindow class exposes as properties (methods, collections, etc) through its string table. Properties that Microsoft does not list in the HTML and DHTML Reference are highlighted yellow. Properties that are listed but not as applying to the window object are shaded yellow.