How do I access a specific HTML element using C#?

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I have a string containing HTML and I need to be able to access a specific element to get the text from it (the element has no id or class or name so regex is out of the question).

For example, lets say I needed to access: "/html/body/div/div[3]/div/table[0]/div/ul/li[12]/a/".

How could I go about doing this?

@RobertHarvey: I'm guessing that div[3] means the 3rd div contained in that parent div, and so on. — Maxim Zaslavsky
– Maxim Zaslavsky, Commented Feb 19, 2011 at 4:56
@Robert Harvey: I assume you have never used firebug? When there are multiple tags of the same type at the same depth, the number is the index of occurance of that tag. — Mike
– Mike, Commented Feb 19, 2011 at 4:58

Nathan Craddock · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-19 04:57:38Z

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If the HTML is well formatted, you can parse the HTML with an XmlDocument

Also as Maxim mentioned, the HTML Agility Pack can probably do what you need.

Here's a recent article from 4guysfromrolla on parsing HTML with the HTML Agility Pack

answered Feb 19, 2011 at 4:57

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