Extracting Inner text from HTML BODY node with Html Agility Pack

c# html vb.net html-agility-pack
KJSR picture KJSR · Jul 28, 2011 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

Need a bit of help with HTML Agility Pack!

Basically I want to grab plain-text withing the body node of the HTML. So far I have tried this in vb.net and it fails to return the innertext meaning no change is seen, well atleast from what I can see.

Dim htmldoc As HtmlDocument = New HtmlDocument
htmldoc.LoadHtml(html)

Dim paragraph As HtmlNodeCollection = htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//body")

If Not htmldoc Is Nothing Then
   For Each node In paragraph
       node.ParentNode.RemoveChild(node, True)
   Next
End If

Return htmldoc.DocumentNode.WriteContentTo

I have tried this:

Return htmldoc.DocumentNode.InnerText

But still no luck!

Any advice???

Answer

Jeff Mercado picture Jeff Mercado · Jul 28, 2011

How about:

Return htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body").InnerText

Related questions

Is there #Region code for HTML

In VB and C# there are #Region ... #endRegion and have it collapsable. Is there a similar way to do this in HTML? Right now I just have comments blocking where the different elements are on my HTML page, but I …

Read More
WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap() or other methods?

I am trying to capture the content of the WebBrowser control. DrawToBitmap() would work perfectly, but it is not supported in documentation for the WebBrowser control. I have been trying to find another way to capture the contents of the …

Read More
Submit web form on a GeckoWebBrowser? (GeckoFX)

There is a properly way to submit a web form using GeckoFX library? This is what I'm doing to fill a web form and submit the form, but...well, I'm not submitting, I'm just clicking on the last button of …

Read More