Strip all HTML code from String with C#

Question

I am currently pulling some data from a SQL Server database into a C# asp.net page.

I am using the following (portion of) code to ouput the HTML text that is stored in my body column:

TextLabel.Text += "<div class=\"newsEntry\">" + 
    Convert.ToString(reader2["body"]).Substring(0, 220) + 
    "...<a href='entry.aspx?ID=" + reader2["ID"] + 
    "' title=\"Read More about " + reader2["Title"] + 
    "\">Read More &raquo;</a></div>";

I'd like to strip the body value (+ Convert.ToString(reader2["body"]).Substring(0, 220) +) of all HTML inside it.

How do I achieve this with C#?

Normally with PHP, I'd use striptags.

Many thanks for any help.

strip_tags and htmlspecialchars do totally different things. Make up your mind. — Jon
– Jon, Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 10:16
I've just made it up. I'd like to strip all the HTML inside body :) Any ideas? — michaelmcgurk
– michaelmcgurk, Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 10:17
Whatever you're trying to do with parsing HTML in C#, look first to the HTML Agility Pack - htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com — Snixtor
– Snixtor, Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 10:34
If you are always using "<div class=\"newsEntry\">" this you can use simply split function. Otherwise if your body has html tags you can use agilitypack. — Kadir
– Kadir, Commented Feb 12, 2013 at 11:57

Snixtor · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 10:26:12Z

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look at HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode() and HttpServerUtility.HtmlDecode() methods

edited Feb 12, 2013 at 10:26

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answered Feb 12, 2013 at 10:18

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शेखर Over a year ago

it will code and decode html characters like "<" to "<" what is the relation of it in striping.

michaelmcgurk Over a year ago

Aaaah great. So on entry ENCODE and on output DECODE? :)

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