How to construct properly a html string in C#

Question

I need to create this html string :

<table cellspacing="2" style="width:100%">
    <tr height="30" nowrap="NOWRAP" width="200" bgcolor="#f4f4f4">
      <th>Product</th>
      <th>Category</th> 
      <th>Price</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>Replace</td>
      <td>Replace</td>
      <td>Replace</td>
  </tr>
</table>

And I have a List of items that I intend to replace. I Was trying to do with StringBuilder but it wasn't working!

What does "it was not working" mean? Did your application crash? Did you get an unexpected result? What exactly happened? Also you need to supply the code you have so far, you can replace / build a string in many different ways and until you clarify how you are doing this no one can answer your question. — Igor
– Igor, Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 11:03
When I tried to create something like cellspacing="2" it wasn't working. And the "td's" has to be replaced by the items from a List. — Nathiel Barros
– Nathiel Barros, Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 11:06

Igor · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-08 11:05:06Z

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You can use the @ for verbatim string and double the " marks to escape them. Also you can use string.Format with {} placeholders to inject values although they are not html encoded so if you have characters like < in the string they would need to be escaped. This is 1 variant of many and without you sharing what you have so far it is as good as any answer you might get.

var html = string.Format(
@"<table cellspacing=""2"" style=""width:100%"">
    <tr height=""30"" nowrap=""NOWRAP"" width=""200"" bgcolor=""#f4f4f4"">
      <th>Product</th>
      <th>Category</th> 
      <th>Price</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>{0}</td>
      <td>{1}</td>
      <td>{2}</td>
  </tr>
</table>", listItem[0], listItem[1], listItem[2]);

answered Jul 8, 2017 at 11:05

Igor

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Nathiel Barros Over a year ago

Thanks, that was exactly what I need!

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