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Asked: 2026-05-28T08:00:52+00:00

During exporting from an HTML text to an Excel sheet, I’m trying to preserve

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During exporting from an HTML text to an Excel sheet, I’m trying to preserve basic formattings like HTML line breaks (<br>, <p>), lists (<ol>, <ul>) etc.

Example input:

<p>This is a test.</p>
<p>This is another<br>test.</p>

<ul>
    <li>10</li>
    <li>20</li>
    <li>30</li>
</ul>

<p>End.</p>

Example output:

This is a test.

This is another
test.

- 10
- 20
- 30

End.

The free utility HTMLAsText from the famous NirSoft guy seems to do just what I want, unfortunately it comes with no source code:

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Even after examining the approx. 20 similar questions here on Stack Overflow and browsing Google for hours, the closest thing I could find is this Code Project article.

My question therefore is:

Is anyone aware of a class/library that could convert HTML to Plain Text while preserving basic formattings?

Update 2013-05-10

I ended up with one function, see the full code over at Pastebin.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Can you not do this yourself by replacing:

    <br /> with Environment.NewLine
</p> with Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine
<li> with " - ".

    Then just strip out the rest of the HTML with regex? It would seem to achieve what you want your example output to be. Of course, someone may have a more elegant solution that that. =)

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