Retrieving Inner Text of Html Tag C#

Question

I have a string that contains html. Inside of this string there is an html tag and I want to retrieve the inner text of that. How can I do that in C#?

Here is the html tag whose inner text I want to retrieve:

<td width="100%" class="container">

Answer 1

Use the Html Agility Pack.

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Edit something like this (not tested)

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
string html = /* whatever */;
doc.LoadHtml(html);
foreach(HtmlNode td in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//td[@class='container']")
{
    string text = td.InnerText;
    // do whatever with text
}

You can also select the text directly with a different XPath selector.

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Answer 2

try with regex.

public string GetInnerTextFromHtml(string htmlText)
{
    //Match any Html tag (opening or closing tags) 
    // followed by any successive whitespaces
    //consider the Html text as a single line

    Regex regex = new Regex("(<.*?>\\s*)+", RegexOptions.Singleline);
    
    // replace all html tags (and consequtive whitespaces) by spaces
    // trim the first and last space

    string resultText = regex.Replace(htmlText, " ").Trim();

    return resultText;
}