I am fairly new to Visual Basic.  What I'd like to do programmatically is to open a browser, go to a url, search the html text for keywords, parse that data, then use that parsed data to form other url's and go to those sites.  Currently, I have a simpe form to type in the search text.  I can go to the first site ok and parse the html text, but unless I put something (msgbox) to force focus back to that form, all the other webbrowser.navigates do not work...

Thanks in advance...

try

FormName.SetFocus

That will draw focus back to the form.