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feat: Allow WebContentsView to accept webContents object
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59 lines
1.9 KiB
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# WebContentsView
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> A View that displays a WebContents.
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Process: [Main](../glossary.md#main-process)
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This module cannot be used until the `ready` event of the `app`
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module is emitted.
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```js
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const { BaseWindow, WebContentsView } = require('electron')
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const win = new BaseWindow({ width: 800, height: 400 })
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const view1 = new WebContentsView()
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win.contentView.addChildView(view1)
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view1.webContents.loadURL('https://electronjs.org')
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view1.setBounds({ x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400 })
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const view2 = new WebContentsView()
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win.contentView.addChildView(view2)
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view2.webContents.loadURL('https://github.com/electron/electron')
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view2.setBounds({ x: 400, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400 })
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```
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## Class: WebContentsView extends `View`
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> A View that displays a WebContents.
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Process: [Main](../glossary.md#main-process)
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`WebContentsView` inherits from [`View`](view.md).
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`WebContentsView` is an [EventEmitter][event-emitter].
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### `new WebContentsView([options])`
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* `options` Object (optional)
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* `webPreferences` [WebPreferences](structures/web-preferences.md) (optional) - Settings of web page's features.
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* `webContents` [WebContents](web-contents.md) (optional) - If present, the given WebContents will be adopted by the WebContentsView. A WebContents may only be presented in one WebContentsView at a time.
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Creates a WebContentsView.
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### Instance Properties
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Objects created with `new WebContentsView` have the following properties, in
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addition to those inherited from [View](view.md):
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#### `view.webContents` _Readonly_
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A `WebContents` property containing a reference to the displayed `WebContents`.
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Use this to interact with the `WebContents`, for instance to load a URL.
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```js
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const { WebContentsView } = require('electron')
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const view = new WebContentsView()
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view.webContents.loadURL('https://electronjs.org/')
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```
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[event-emitter]: https://nodejs.org/api/events.html#events_class_eventemitter
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