Question

Can someone tell me an efficient method of retrieving the CSS between tags on a page of markup in .NET?

I’ve come up with a method which uses recursion, Split() and CompareTo() but is really long-winded, and I feel sure that there must be a far shorter (and more clever) method of doing the same.

Please keep in mind that it is possible to have more than one element on a page, and that the element can be either or .

Answer 1

Try Regex.

goto:http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
paste html with css, and use this expression at the top:

<style type=\"text/css\">(.*?)</style>

here is the c# version:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

Match m = Regex.Match(this.textBox1.Text, "<style type=\"text/css\">(.*?)</style>", RegexOptions.Singleline);

if (m.Success)
{
    string css = m.Groups[1].Value;
    //do stuff
}