Get the value of an HTML element

Question

I have the HTML code of a webpage in a text file. I\'d like my program to return the value that is in a tag. E.g. I want to get \"Julius\" out of

Answer 1

I'd strongly recommend you look into something like the HTML Agility Pack

Answer 2

i've asked the same question few days ago and ened up using HTML Agility Pack, but here is the regular expressions that you want

this one will ignore the attributes

<span[^>]*>(.*?)</span>

this one will consider the attributes

<span class="hidden first"[^>]*>(.*?)</span>

Answer 3

I would use the Html Agility Pack to parse the HTML in C#.

Answer 4

You should be using an html parser like htmlagilitypack .Regex is not a good choice for parsing HTML files as HTML is not strict nor is it regular with its format.

You can use below code to retrieve it using HtmlAgilityPack

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load(yourStream);

var itemList = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//span[@class='hidden first']")//this xpath selects all span tag having its class as hidden first
                  .Select(p => p.InnerText)
                  .ToList();

//itemList now contain all the span tags content having its class as hidden first