I have the following scenario:
<a href="test.com">Some text <b>is bolded</b> some is <b>not</b></a>
Now, how do I get the "test.com" part and the anchor of the text, without having the bolded parts?
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Are you looking to extract "Some text is bolded some is not" (the text of the anchor without formatting markup) or "Some text some is" (content within markup removed)?josh3736– josh37362011-09-22 20:51:38 +00:00Commented Sep 22, 2011 at 20:51
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I need to extract the link within the anchor and the whole text without formatting mark-up. That would be "Some text is bolded some is not".Daniel– Daniel2011-09-22 20:55:05 +00:00Commented Sep 22, 2011 at 20:55
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Assuming the following markup:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="test.com">Some text <b>is bolded</b> some is <b>not</b></a>
</body>
</html>
You could perform the following:
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load("test.html");
var anchor = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//a");
Console.WriteLine(anchor.Attributes["href"].Value);
Console.WriteLine(anchor.InnerText);
}
}
prints:
test.com
Some text is bolded some is not
Of course you probably wanna adjust your SelectSingleNode XPath selector by providing an unique id or a classname to the anchor you are trying to fetch:
// assuming <a href="test.com" id="foo">Some text <b>is bolded</b> some is <b>not</b></a>
var anchor = doc.GetElementbyId("foo");
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Daniel
Exactly what I needed. I did a bit of a hack on the HTML to get the text I wanted. I stripped out the link and then I gave it to the LoadHTML method of the HtmlDocument. It did the trick. Unfortunately I couldn't use the GetElementbyId, so the hack did its job OK.