How to parse html based on class

Question

Hello I want to parse a webpage based on the class.Here's the div: Value: 100.00 Special Request What I want is to get the following text on the console: Value: 100.00 Special Request. I tried to use HtmlAgilityPack but i couldn't make it work. Can you give me some help please? Thank you in advance.

Vulpes · Answer

OK but if you can't find a better way then it's easy to use LINQ to XML to get the associated class names: using System; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; class Test { static void Main() { string html = File.ReadAllText(dealy.html); //html =   + html.Substring(5 html.Length - 11) + ; XElement root = XElement.Parse(html); foreach(XElement xe in root.Elements()) { string className = (string)xe.Attribute(class); Console.WriteLine({0} class = {1} -> {2} xe.Name className xe.Value.Trim()); } Console.ReadKey(); } } The output should be: div class = valueCl -> Value: div class = amount -> 100.00 span class = spReq -> Special Request Incidentally I thought previously that it wouldn't parse unless I changed the outer ... to something else but in fact it parses fine so that step is unnecessary.

Dealy · Answer

I think this might work thank you!

Dealy · Answer

Thanks for answering but i need a general solution. The above div was an example in order to see if anyone can help me get the inner text based on the class name. I need to know that 100.00 came out of div class=amount and so on. Thank you for trying though:)

Vulpes · Answer

Although it's not ideal it's possible to parse a simple piece of HTML such as this by converting it to an XML document and then parsing it as a piece of XML. Here's how you could do it in this particular case using LINQ to XML: using System; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Xml.Linq; class Test { static void Main() { string html = File.ReadAllText(dealy.html); html =   + html.Substring(5 html.Length - 11) + ; XElement root = XElement.Parse(html); string result = ; foreach(XElement xe in root.Elements()) result += xe.Value.TrimEnd(); Console.WriteLine(result); Console.ReadKey(); } } The output should be: Value: 100.00 Special Request