List of HTML elements from a string

Jaloopa

Before I start reinventing the wheel and come out with some Codethulu monstrosity, is there any standard way or built standard library way to to this? (in .Net)

Given a string that's HTML formatted ( possibly including some text outside of tags), can I break it down into a collection of the top level tag elements?

So something like:

Some text<br/>
<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th> 
    <th>Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jill</td>
    <td>Smith</td> 
    <td>50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eve</td>
    <td>Jackson</td> 
    <td>94</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<span>some more text</span>

I'd like a collection of 4 strings: the plain text, the <br/>, the table and the span. Is it possible without going a decent amount down the path of creating an HTML parser?

anotherusername

@jaloopa don't reinvent the wheel. Just run it through an HTML parser and loop through the top-level nodes.

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How-to-parse-html-in-NET-2660026c

Zecc

@anotherusername said in List of HTML elements from a string:

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How-to-parse-html-in-NET-2660026c

Did they really need to make a 300KB-zipped full ASP.Net solution for demonstrating what basically amounts to:

using HtmlAgilityPack;

// ...
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(htmlString);

// ...error checking left as an exercise...

var childNodes = doc.DocumentNode.ChildNodes;

anotherusername

@zecc *shrug* I don't know, all I know is that "terget" made me cringe but I was too lazy to find anything else.