How do you convert Html to plain text?
I have snippets of Html stored in a table. Not entire pages, no tags or the like, just basic formatting.
I would like to be able to display that Html as text only, no formatting, on a given page (actually just the first 30 - 50 characters but that's the easy bit).
How do I place the "text" within that Html into a string as straight text?
So this piece of code.
<b>Hello World.</b><br/><p><i>Is there anyone out there?</i><p>
Becomes:
Hello World. Is there anyone out there?
Answer
The free and open source HtmlAgilityPack has in one of its samples a method that converts from HTML to plain text.
var plainText = HtmlUtilities.ConvertToPlainText(string html);
Feed it an HTML string like
<b>hello, <i>world!</i></b>
And you'll get a plain text result like:
hello world!